A Filipina domestic worker is in hospital
due to a stroke early this month that has left her partially blind in her right
eye and feeling numb on the right side of her body.
The stroke which
occurred on Feb. 3, also left 50-year-old Mediatrix R.’s speech slurry.
Mediatrix told The SUN
that she was scheduled for a third CT scanning session, after two previous
scans to look for blood clots in her brain yielded no findings.
“Na-CT scan na ako,
dalawang beses, pero nahihilo pa rin ako at saka di nakakakita sa aking kanang mata,” said the
mother of three, who is in Ruttonjee Hospital in Wan Chai.
Mediatrix was taken to
the hospital by her Korean lady employer on Feb. 3 after she complained of
severe headache and dizziness.
She was admitted at
Ruttonjee Hospital and moved to Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital for
two days for the CT scan sessions and then taken back to Ruttonjee for
observation.
Mediatrix, a native of
Bangued, Abra, said she had been in Hong Kong for 20 years, spending the last
10 years working for her Korean employer.
Now she said her
employer, whom she described as “very kind”, wanted to bring her sister over to
replace her and, at the same time, take care of her. But she said the employer
does not know how to go about doing this.
The Filipina’s concerns
now are the expenses she would incur from her hospital stay, and what help she
could expect from government agencies like the Overseas Workers Welfare
Administration and the Social Security System. – VB Lumicao
