Incredibly dreadful situation, poor man. Regardless of where I travel to, I always take up Health Insurance. And don't settle for the cheapest.
That's sad, incredibly sad but I could not expect the Canadian government to act otherwise, there is a limit of responsibility and when it comes to remote adventures you are accepting all of the risk. From the sound of his situation I don't think any travel insurance would have covered him anyway, he was travelling and working and that is pretty risky. But it is tragic, he's a young man.
I got 3 months insurance for the himalayas,helicopter rescue when high altitude trekking included, cost me a few quid but it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it, but sitting on the beach on Boracay watching a spectacular sunset nothing is ever going to go wrong..... Is it?
I had a really bad chest infection the day I took this shot in Boracay, I brought the infection with me from Scotland this was my second day in the country on that trip.
First time I ever went to Boracay it was backpackers, few bars, that was it, a few weeks after I left a British girl was raped and bitten all over her body by a tricycle driver. The last time I went it was like any of a dozen Thai islands, nothing original about it.
Of course they wouldn't, petty bureaucracy is a fundamental feature of the Philippines, however if this man has been looked after for more than 7 months, he got ill last year after all, it is pretty likely that he is a burden on the Philippine state, someone is paying the bills.
Yeah I know, my friends saw it fairly unspoiled as they were the project implementers back in 1998 who took the occasional weekend break on the island, six years later it was pretty commercialised and now I hate to think.
My heart goes out to the guy and his family but he took the risk willingly much as I will when I start spending a lot of time out there in a few years time.
I mentioned a Filipino tourist on here a while ago, caught covid in the land of maple syrup, life support machine the works, his bill is/was 9000 CAD a day, I will have to ask Er Indoors what became of him.
