RIYADH: The wife of an Indian expatriate — the victim of a road accident — has appealed to the Indian Embassy in Riyadh to help her husband pay the medical expenses (SR40,000) to enable him to leave the hospital.
“My husband has been in hospital since July 14 and now he has partly recovered from a coma he had slipped into after a head injury caused by the accident. Doctors have allowed him to leave but he has to pay SR40,000 for the medical treatment,” Sreedevi Arokyasamy, wife of Arokyasamy Selvaraj, said in her letter addressed to the embassy.
On July 14, Arokyasamy, who was on a bicycle on an Al-Kharj street, was hit by a car, the victim’s wife says was driven by a Saudi youth.
He fell on the road and suffered head injuries. The driver fled the scene and was never caught.
Arokyasamy came to the Kingdom 12 years ago as an unskilled laborer. Even though the sponsor was informed about the incident, he had not come to see the patient ever since the accident occurred. Arokyasamy and his wife Sreedevi have two daughters, aged 10 and 8 months.
