The fund to help pay Stephanie Inglis' (left) hospital bills has nearly reached £250,000 ©Getty Images

A fund to help pay for the hospital care of Commonwealth Games judo silver medallist Stephanie Inglis has now raised nearly £250,000 ($366,000/€329,000).

Inglis, who finished runner-up to England’s Nekoda Smythe Davis in the women’s under 57 kilograms category at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, suffered head injuries when her skirt got caught in the wheel of her motorbike on May 10 in Vietnam.

The Scottish athlete had been travelling to a school where she has been teaching English to disadvantaged children for the past four months.

Family friend and fellow British judoka Khalid Gehlan set up a GoFundMe page on May 12 in a bid to raise funds for her medical bills.

Inglis’ travel insurance had expired and her hospital stay was costing £2,000 ($2,900/€2,500) per day.

The judoka, who remains in a coma, was moved to a specialist hospital in Bangkok last week with funds having reached £244,736 ($357,000/€321,000).

A Facebook page titled SaveSteph stated that Inglis had “developed septicemia and some other less but also worrying infections, all off which she is now receiving treatment for” along with pneumonia that had already been diagnosed.

Stephanie Inglis finished as the runner-up in the women's under 57kg category at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
Stephanie Inglis finished as the runner-up in the women's under 57kg category at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games ©Getty Images

The 27-year-old is due to undergo surgery tomorrow to “remove some infections in her brain, remove her breathing tube and replace it with a tracheotomy and remove her feeding tube from her throat and replace this with a gastro stony” which it is hoped will speed up the healing process.

An assessment at the hospital had also revealed two minor fractures on her vertebrae.

It is hoped that as Inglis’ sedation is gradually reduced, the judoka will slowly be brought out of her coma.

You can visit the fundraising website here.