Friends of na­tion­al box­er Michael Alexan­der has start­ed a Go­FundMe ac­count to help him with his re­cov­ery.

The fund, which was start­ed yes­ter­day, has a tar­get of $250, 000 which ac­cord­ing to Reynold Cox, the Tech­ni­cal Di­rec­tor of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion, will help to take care of him and the ex­pect­ed high med­ical bills which are as­so­ci­at­ed with his in­juries.

Cox ex­plained that the box­er will have to heal from in­juries sus­tained in an ac­ci­dent while rid­ing his mo­tor­bike on Jan­u­ary 28 in his home­town of Diego Mar­tin.

Af­ter the ac­ci­dent, the box­er was tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where he had been list­ed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. The 28-year old box­er was re­leased from the hos­pi­tal on Feb­ru­ary 26 and is now at home in Pe­tit Val­ley, Diego Mar­tin.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia Sports yes­ter­day, Cox said Alexan­der has a bro­ken hand, some bro­ken ribs and mi­nor head in­juries, which means that he is still un­der the care of doc­tors and seek­ing med­ical at­ten­tion. The box­er is set to un­der­go reg­u­lar ther­a­py and ac­cord­ing to Cox, a psy­chol­o­gist may al­so be need­ed to bring the box­er back to nor­mal­cy.

At the time of the ac­ci­dent, Alexan­der was a mem­ber of the T&T box­ing team prepar­ing for the Amer­i­c­as Olympic Qual­i­fiers card­ed for Ar­genti­na in May.

Cox said he was one of the box­ers whose as­so­ci­a­tion had high hopes of earn­ing a qual­i­fy­ing berth. "There is the whole med­ical ex­pense in terms of dai­ly med­ica­tion, x-rays, MRI and dif­fer­ent scans that he may have to un­der­go. We're are find­ing peo­ple with­in the sport­ing and med­ical fields who would like to vol­un­teer their ser­vices to help him, but ob­vi­ous­ly, there is go­ing to be a very high cost," said Cox.

With­in a few hours of start­ing the fund, it had reached a de­cent $250 and Cox said the in­ter­ests to help the box­er has giv­en them hope of them achiev­ing their tar­get.