IN COMA FOR TWO YEARS
Recovery Held Unlikely
(NZ. Press Association—Copyright)
MELBOURNE, April 8. A Polish migrant Mr Konstanty Bajdziuk, aged 43, who has been in a coma for two years today in the Footscray and District Hospital in Melbourne, will probably remain unconscious until he dies, doctors said today. On April 8, 1957, he was brought to the hospital with a fractured skull, brain injury, 10 broken ribs and a fractured pelvis. A car hit him as he was crossing the road to catch a bus. He has »o friends or relatives in Australia. His sister, Mrs Prakseda Niedaszkowska, .living in Poland, beard of the accident and wrote to the hospital asking about him. But the Medical Superintendent of the hospital (Dr. W. D. L. Farrar) said today: “We could only write back and tell her that he w iU probably remain unconscious until he dies.” Dr. Farrar said Mr Bajdziuk is Physically fit “but we have very little hope that he will ever regain consciousness.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28866, 10 April 1959, Page 5
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