{"id":717522,"date":"2026-04-10T06:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/717522\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:31:16","slug":"maya-gebala-heading-to-l-a-for-treatment-after-offer-from-dana-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/717522\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Gebala heading to L.A. for treatment after offer from Dana White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The family of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/maya-gebala\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maya Gebala<\/a>, the 12-year-old girl critically injured in a mass shooting in <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/tumbler-ridge-school-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tumbler Ridge<\/a>, has accepted an offer to send her for specialized treatment at a Los Angeles hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Global News has learned that UFC president Dana White will be covering the costs of this treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Maya is still recovering at BC Children\u2019s Hospital after she was shot in the head.<\/p>\n<p>She was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11754196\/tumbler-ridge-shooting-survivor-maya-gebala-out-icu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">moved out of the intensive care unit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Ciadoodle\/posts\/pfbid0SWztX46w4jvhSVhvESDtKxPZofjgnqfUvW5cM128X4rHomJWqtjAJYd6jUHm3rxdl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook post on Thursday morning<\/a>, Maya\u2019s mother, Cia Edmonds, wrote that after many nights of questioning and fear of the unknown, they are accepting an opportunity for an aggressive approach to Maya\u2019s rehabilitation through privatized health care in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/healthiq.jpg\" alt=\"Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet weekly health news<\/p>\n<p>Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited as well as nervous, away from family and resources,\u201d Edmonds wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn opportunity we could not refuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Maya Gebala\u2019s family receives offer from UFC president'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775802676_311_maya_upate_thumbnail_1280x720_.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:33<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMaya Gebala\u2019s family receives offer from UFC president\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Health<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>On March 25, Edmonds had said that White had contacted the family with the offer of help.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonds said that White offered to pay for Maya to receive the care at an L.A. hospital, which has an extensive brain trauma clinic. She said White also offered to pay for the family\u2019s accommodations.<\/p>\n<p>There is no timeline yet for the move, as Edmonds said they have to get everything in place and Maya must be stable for travel.<\/p>\n<p>-with files from Rumina Daya<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The family of Maya Gebala, the 12-year-old girl critically injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":696913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,210,254715,50,252252],"class_list":["post-717522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-maya-gebala","tag-news","tag-tumbler-ridge-school-shooting"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116379011668778671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}