Brit millionaire left fighting for life in waterfall plunge & lost 25% of his blood – but then made incredible gesture

A BRIT entrepreneur has told however helium was near warring for his beingness aft plunging down a waterfall connected a rafting trip.

Samuel Leeds, 33, mislaid 25 per cent of his humor aft helium plunged onto rocks in Uganda - and was past "left for dead" successful fearfulness infirmary conditions.

The spot developer smashed his kneecap successful 4 places - and past spent 10 days starving and sitting successful his ain urine astatine a poorly provisioned infirmary arsenic docs fought to prevention his life.

The ordeal past inspired him to walk £300,000 connected what would beryllium his "biggest task to date".

Six years on, helium has spoken to The Sun astir his gruesome injury, the acheronian times that followed, and however it drove him to physique a caller infirmary helping successful conscionable 7 months successful Uganda.

He said: "I was h2o rafting connected the River Nile and the vessel capsized.

"I ended up getting taken up by the rapids and having a horrible horrible clip successful the water.

"I ended up getting taken down from the rapids into a waterfall, [down a] 20 ft driblet and landed connected rocks. It was conscionable truly nasty.

"I mislaid 25 per cent of my blood, I broke my patella bony successful my limb successful 4 places.

"I could spot that I went done the skin, and it was conscionable perfectly horrible."

Medics astatine the Jinja Referral Hospital deemed him unfit to alert - leaving Leeds stuck successful the poverty-stricken state without an MRI instrumentality and with conscionable a fistful of orthopaedic surgeons.

After relaying the news to friends and household backmost home, Leeds said galore had the aforesaid reaction. 

He said: "All my English doc friends were telling me, ‘do not person country successful Uganda’ [and] that the hospitals aren't the aforesaid arsenic they are successful the UK, but I didn’t truly person a choice."

By chance, Dr Jamelia, an orthopaedic surgeon successful Uganda was adjacent and capable to transportation retired the indispensable surgery. 

“I deliberation determination was lone 12 orthopaedic surgeons successful the full of Uganda of the millions of people," Leeds said.

"Even now, I deliberation there’s astir 20 successful the full of Uganda."

Despite palmy country connected his leg, the past 27-year-old faced 10 “really tough” days astatine the "cramped" and "understaffed" hospital.

While there, patients were told that attraction could not beryllium carried retired owed to a deficiency of resources.

“I don't privation to talk severely of the Ugandan hospitals oregon thing similar that, but I couldn't spell to the toilet,” helium revealed. 

“I had to conscionable prevarication successful my ain urine for 10 hours.

"It was conscionable perfectly disgusting, and besides conscionable the deficiency of space.

"I didn’t devour for 10 days."

In a gruesome representation from his accident, the whites of some of Leeds' eyes were wholly reddish with blood.

Staff were acrophobic astir encephalon damage, but "there was nary mode of investigating it," Leeds said.

"They didn't person immoderate MRI scans oregon thing similar that," helium explained.

“It’s hard, adjacent reasoning astir it now. It was truly tough... truly acheronian times."

After going done the ordeal and seeing however locals suffered owed to a deficiency of space, doctors, and equipment, Leeds decided to instrumentality action.

"I thought, 'man this is mad'," helium said, earlier speaking to his doctors to inquire however helium could assistance and springiness backmost to the community.

Initially, the Brit started by purchasing tiny pieces of instrumentality and paying for the attraction of strangers.

But with £300,000 to put - making him a billionaire successful Uganda - helium wanted to bash much and acceptable his sights connected gathering a infirmary ward - present known arsenic the Samuel Leeds Ward.

A commissioning ceremonial was held astatine the tract past period which was attended by the lawman premier curate of Uganda arsenic good arsenic different MPs.

"It's nighttime and time [compared to however the infirmary utilized to be] wherever the country utilized to instrumentality place," Leeds said.

"It's unrecognisable."

The ward is 72,000sq ft and holds much than 60 beds.

Leeds and his squad were initially quoted betwixt 3 and six cardinal Ugandan shillings - much than £1 cardinal - and told that it would instrumentality 3 years.

But successful conscionable 7 months, Leeds and his squad got the helping built and operational with £300,000.

"The interaction of it that it volition person is huge," helium said.

"It’s rather sobering successful that sense, but also, I mean a Lamborghini [for £300,000] mightiness marque you consciousness a small spot blessed for a week.

"But doing thing similar this, it's the consciousness of fulfilment, that is acold superior.

"I've lived connected a assembly estate, I didn't turn up with anything," the entrepreneur added, saying his younger aforesaid "wouldn't person believed" his success.

Since the committee of the ward, Leeds has been inundated with messages of gratitude from radical successful Uganda.

Even authorities officials person been asking "to spot receipts" owed to their daze astatine the velocity of construction, the debased budget, and the prime of the last result.

In summation to the infirmary ward, Leeds built a caller schoolhouse successful the country which was commissioned successful the aforesaid week.

The Samuel Leeds School already has implicit 400 registered pupils who volition beryllium taught fiscal literacy and halfway subjects.

The spot developer plans to proceed moving successful Uganda arsenic good arsenic Zimbabwe wherever his woman grew up.