A young Angus girl found unconscious during a family holiday to Spain will be kept in a coma for at least two weeks because of fears over brain damage.
Arbroath girl Cally Simpson has lain in a Spanish hospital since she was found at the bottom of a swimming pool in the holiday resort of Salou on Tuesday, June 24.
But her condition has worsened according to her family, who have expressed hopes “God is watching her”.
Dad Steven wrote on the Facebook page Saving Cally Simpson, set up to update friends and family from her bedside in Barcelona: “She’s had her scan today and it wasn’t good news.
“They’re keeping her in her coma another two to three weeks then (they are) gonna scan her again. Her brain is really damaged and it’s a huge concern.
“They don’t know if when they take her off her machines if her brain will be able to tell her heart to pump and lungs to breathe, but God is watching her and I have faith.
“She has made it this far, defying the doctors, so she can do it some more.”
Steven and Cally’s mum Kate Miller had initially been given the good news that their little girl’s brain was responding to tests.
Cally had been on her first foreign holiday with her family when tragedy struck at the Villa Marina resort.
After attempts to resuscitate her, the critically ill girl was rushed to a specialist children’s hospital in Barcelona.
The accident sparked a desperate struggle by Cally’s mum to get to Spain, with her efforts to rush to her daughter’s side blocked by a French air traffic controllers’ strike.