The gap year nightmare every parent dreads: Olivia, 21, was left in a coma after crashing her scooter in India without a helmet on. Her father relives his 5,000-mile dash to the rat-infested hospital...

For almost five long days my daughter Olivia had lain, bloodied and bruised, on a metal bed in that noisy, filthy ward in Goa.

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