Picturesque Indonesia is known to draw Australian tourists like a magnet, due to its relative proximity and a myriad of opportunities for a perfect beach holiday, and Instagram model Emily Gurr is apparently one of them. However, unlike most other – far luckier – holidaymakers, she has lately gone through two medical mishaps while in Bali.
Queensland-based blonde model Emily Gurr, who boasts a more than 116,000-strong army of Instagram fans, told the Australian News.com that she has been flown from Bali twice in need of emergency medical care, adding that but for comprehensive travel insurance, which she fortunately took out before both trips, she would have had to foot her eye-watering medical bills herself.
In the most recent incident several weeks ago, Gurr had her ankle severely injured after she was hit by a parking motorbike, as she was ‘walking to dinner, completely sober'.
‘He [motorbike rider] came up on the bike lane and lost control and his bike fell on my ankle and smashed it,' Gurr detailed the experience, adding that she was subsequently misdiagnosed by local doctors with ‘a sprain' and even had to pay a fee for the examination, since the doctor turned out to not be affiliated with an insurance company.
Only after the pain grew intolerable, worsening into ‘absolute agony', did she contact her insurer, 1Cover, which arranged her business class flight back home…
