RP Embassy in Dubai fails to aid OFW who died in UAE hospital By Ted Boehnert 02/13/2011

RP Embassy in Dubai fails to aid OFW who died in UAE hospital

By Ted Boehnert 02/13/2011

ANGADANAN, Isabela — The body of a 31-year-old female overseas Filipino worker (OFW),who earlier died in a hospital at the United Arab Emirates, arrived here last Tuesday morning (Feb. 8) amid accusations that the Philippine Embassy in the Middle East country failed to act on her request for repatriation while still alive from the hospital.

Alma Suguitan’s body, which arrived the night before at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport via an Emirates flight from Dubai, was met by members of her family and a delegation from Angadanan municipal government led by Mayor Lourdes Panganiban.

Allegations were earlier raised by the overseas welfare group Migrante that the Philippine Embassy in the UAE did not act on Suguitan’s request for repatriation while she was still being treated by anemia in that hospital in Dubai.

Suguitan died of that disease last Jan. 25..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110213nat3.html