Adrian Laing
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Robert White, Director of the Sanmerna Foundation, and Adrian Laing, the father of the 13-year-old girl
The 13-year-old girl who survived the fire that claimed the lives of her three brothers in Springfield, Westmoreland on Sunday, was airlifted to the United States for treatment on Thursday.
This follows efforts by the Sanmerna Foundation and others to raise US$40,000 to pay for the air ambulance.
The child, Adrianna Laing, will undergo treatment free of cost at the Joseph M. Still Burn Medical Centre in Georgia.
Noting that it was a "team work" that made this possible, Robert White, Director of the Sanmerna Foundation, expressed gratitude to corporate Jamaica as well as citizens locally and in the diaspora who donated funds to help Adrianna go overseas for medical care.
Adrianna's father, Adrian Laing, said his heart is heavy but he is relieved she is "off to get treatment so she can have a second chance".
The teen and her three brothers were at home when a fire started.
Community members managed to save Adrianna, however, her brothers - two of them seven and one eight years old - died in the blaze.
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