US EditionTumbler Ridge shooting victim Maya Gebala’s mom says UFC boss offering to fund care
UFC president Dana White is funding specialized brain trauma care for 12-year-old Maya Gebala, who was critically injured in the Tumbler Ridge shooting, her mother said.
- On Wednesday, Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White offered to pay for 12-year-old Maya Gebala's medical care and lodging at a top-tier Los Angeles hospital, her mother Cia Edmonds announced.
- The mass shooting on Feb. 10 in Tumbler Ridge killed eight people and left Maya with significant brain injuries, prompting surgeons to delay a planned skull-repair operation after an abscess developed.
- Previously, the UFC displayed her name inside the Octagon during a Feb. 21 event in Texas, while Edmonds documents Maya's progress for over 100,000 followers on social media.
- Maya remains at Vancouver's Children's Hospital, where she is stable enough to travel; Edmonds described the transfer plan as "tentative" pending continued medical stability.
- Access to a Los Angeles facility with an "extensive brain trauma clinic and more resources" could improve Maya's recovery prospects, with Edmonds hoping "we may finally start looking towards a future for my girls.
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UFC Boss Offers to Fund US Health Care for Tumbler Ridge Shooting Victim
The mother of a Grade 7 school shooting victim from Tumbler Ridge, B.C., says Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White has offered to pay for her daughter to be treated in California. Cia Edmonds says White has offered to pay for 12-year-old Maya Gebala to receive treatment at a “top-tier” hospital in Los Angeles. And that offer may be within reach now that Maya is stable enough to travel, Edmonds said on Facebook this week. May…
Dana White offers to cover specialized medical care for 12-year-old girl injured by Tumbler Ridge trans shooter
Edwards said that after a week of being in the ICU, "we were contacted by the president of the UFC, Dana White, he’d offered Maya full paid medical in one of the world’s most top tier hospitals in LA California."
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Tumbler Ridge shooting victim Maya Gebala's mom says UFC boss offering to fund care
The mother of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting victim Maya Gebala says Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White has offered to pay for her daughter to be treated in California.
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