Overview
- In a Wednesday update, Maya’s mother said UFC president Dana White offered to fund care at a Los Angeles children’s hospital and said travel is now possible but still tentative.
- Recent lab tests found no bacterial growth in an abscess that forced doctors to cancel a planned skull implant surgery.
- Staff at B.C. Children’s Hospital have begun discussing moving her out of the intensive-care unit.
- Maya, 12, suffered severe brain injuries, has undergone multiple brain surgeries, and communicates with yes-or-no paddles while movement on her right side is limited.
- Community support has raised more than CAD 500,000 on GoFundMe, and the UFC printed her name on the Octagon on February 21.