Fund to help victim of paralysing massage

A fund has been started to help a New Zealand woman paralysed from the neck down after an apparently bungled massage in Australia.

Asha Prasad's father, John, has flown to Sydney and been told by a specialist that his daughter has been left crippled by a massage on her back, Australia's Channel Seven TV network reported.

Ms Prasad has a business and marketing degree and in July was hired by a marketing company.

A company masseur last month gave her a massage at her desk that doctors believe may have caused her condition.