Strange but true - anyone can help w/ France student?

[eeyore45]

I have a friend I've met online, the bb we meet on is basically reality tv (OK big brother...) but here's a copy any suggestions are welcome...

quote{Herc - it's me again looking for help... I need to know if anyone on the board is in France. As you know my DD is there and I just talked to her she is in a great deal of pain and appears to have developed a fever and can hardly walk. Her building is a dorm situation with a phone for international calls only. She doesn't know anyone and the building management is gone for the day I am in a panic here and don't know how to help her. I have thought of everything I can but would appreciate any suggestions Please if you know of anyone who might be able to help let me know and I'll post to them.

Thank you, everyone! }end quote

the dd is obviously part of school program, and we are in no way trying to scam, just looking for suggestion to help... thank you

 

[idofabric]

Is there a roomate that can call the local emergency hosp. If it part of a school program there must be emergency numbers.
Or call the Embassy staff. They are there to help.
Best of luck, have a DD going over in Jan. to Paris for the U.SouCal program and they have a set of emergency numbers that are given out.

 

[eeyore45]

So far that's the same advice I gave her, and I havent heard back! As a mom, I hate that helpless feeling, apparently the dorm isnt staffed at night, and the phone was for international calls, which sounds bizarre, so the student may be in so much pain, is not thinking clearly!

thanks

 

[WDWfan uk]

This sounds very strange to me and raises many questions - this is a school-age child who is totally alone inside a building without anyone to turn to??!! I may have this totally wrong, as I do not know the age of the child but what happened to the teachers who escorted this school group to France? They left her all alone and went out for the day? Well, whilst I don't know the American schools rules and regulations, I cannot imagne they are that different to ours, and they cannot leave a schoolchild totally alone on a foreign (or otherwise) school trip.

(My son was taken ill on one of several school trips to France and a teacher's wife (also a house-mistress) remained with him constantly, and an emergency doctor was called out).

Also, there must be a phone suitable for emergency use in the building - a dormitory would have a phone to call the emergency services.

I really feel for this poor mother and I think her child must be panicking - it is so hard to be ill and so far away. If this is a school trip, then I would call the school and explain the situation and then they could contact the teacher or whoever is with this group.