CROWDFUNDERS have raised more than £36,000 in just weeks for meningitis tot Kia Gott who has had all four limbs amputated.

A new Justgiving appeal was posted this week at justgiving.com/crowdfunding/cheryl-dibbin with a new target of £10,000 to help Kia’s family from Wyke make plans for a brighter future for her.

Kia’s parents Paul and Vikki have been told she will be in the High Dependency Unit for at least another three months before she can be transferred onto a children’s ward - if well enough.

Doctors struggled earlier this week to stop bleeding from Kia’s stumps but the 11-month-old has rallied round yet again, said Mr Gott’s aunt Donna Gott.

“She is a little fighter. We get bad news and then she comes round again. Nurses rang Vikki today to say she was wide-eyed and watching them move around her bed. Paul was so excited he rushed over there,” she added.

Kia’s mum is still staying overnight at Leeds General Infirmary, being joined at weekends by her other children Kayden, eight, and Elsie who is four.

Over the next three months surgeons will be carrying out skin grafts and physiotherapists have just started trying to sit Kia up using a bean bag.

Mrs Gott said: “Kia’s family have a long, hard road ahead of them which is why we need to keep up the crowdfunding and get any help we can for them.

“Vikki and Paul have read every message and have been able to take some comfort from some of the messages from people who have been in similar situations.

“Hopefully we will get to the stage where Kia will need prosthetics. They cost about £3,000 each. the NHS ones are cumbersome any anyone they don’t give them to babies until they are about four, I think. We want Kia to have a bright future and the crowdfunding will help us do that.”

Mrs Gott said the family was focusing on Kia’s day to day progress but would eventually have to think about moving house.

“They have a terraced house at the moment but they will need specific adaptations which will probably mean they will have to move home but I know they will want to stay in Wyke because they have so much support there.”

Earlier this month the Telegraph & Argus reported how Sophie, Countess of Wessex, who is Patron of the Meningitis Now charity, had written a letter of support to the family saying she was heartbroken at their plight.

Doctors have warned that baby Kia could lose her sight, her hearing and be 90 per cent brain damaged by meningitis C septicaemia.

Kia’s dad discovered the rash two months ago on his daughter’s face, neck and chest - a known symptom of meningococcal septicemia - after going to check on her in the middle of the night .

Meningitis Now’s helpline number is 0808 80 10 388