By Vir B. Lumicao
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| Filipina gets emergency treatment |
A Filipina domestic worker was taken on an ambulance to Queen
Mary Hospital yesterday, Apr 11, after she slipped on a stairway at Admiralty
Centre and could not move apparently due to a hip injury.
Officials of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office said they
could not visit her in hospital because the employer could not remember the
maid’s surname.
“We’ll wait until tomorrow, perhaps by then her employer
would be able to give us her surname,” said Labor Attache Jalilo de la Torre.
“She is in great pain and can hardly talk,” De la Torre
said.
The accident happened at about 3:20pm as the woman, who
identified herself to POLO staff as Mary Jane, was on her way to Admiralty
Centre Tower 1 clutching a plastic envelope of documents.
The SUN alerted Assistant Labor Attache Henry Tianero after
the building’s management staff were seen assisting the woman lying in extreme
pain on the steps of the stairway of the footbridge to United Centre.
Tianero was at the scene in two minutes, followed by
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration nurse Joshua Villa. The nurse asked for
the victim’s name and phone number and Tianero called her employer.
The employer was reportedly shocked by the call and promised
to confer with POLO officials immediately.
Mary Jane struggled to tell her name to Villa but she
managed to say that she was descending the stairs when she felt dizzy and did
not know what happened next. The OWWA nurse said the woman could have injured
her hipbone.
The management staff immediately attended to her and called for
an ambulance to take the Filipina to hospital.
Mary Jane could not move her left hip and leg and cried in pain
each time the ambulance attendants tried to carry her onto a foldable wheelchair.
She waited for a few more minutes until they returned with a stretcher.
