Yvette Digan, a 22-year-old exchange student from Hong Kong, suffered severe burns on 30% of her body during an incident at a Worcester Polytechnic Institute fraternity. She alleges that a fraternity member negligently poured a highly flammable liquid onto an open flame, causing second and third-degree burns that damaged her hair follicles, sweat glands, and nerve endings. Digan describes her pain as "like needles stabbing you," and has set up a GoFundMe page for medical costs. As a law student, she came to the U.S. for a summer exchange program aiming to practice law here.
Yvette Digan, a Boston University exchange student from Hong Kong, describes her extreme pain as "like needles stabbing you," following severe burns from a fraternity incident.
Digan alleges a fraternity member "negligently poured a highly flammable liquid, believed to be denatured alcohol" onto an open flame, resulting in her injuries.
She sustained second and third-degree burns on 30 percent of her body, including damage to hair follicles, sweat glands, and nerve endings, according to her lawyer.
Digan, studying law and aspiring to practice in the United States, has established a GoFundMe page to cover her medical expenses stemming from the burns.
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