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Pinay helper in serious condition after being forced to drink bleach in Saudi Arabia


A Filipina household service worker in Saudi Arabia is now in serious condition after she was allegedly forced to drink bleach by her employer.

Agnes Mancilla was rushed to the King Fahad Central Hospital in Jizan by members of the Filipino community on April 2 following the incident, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

Mancilla underwent laparotomy immediately after she was taken to the hospital to flush out the bleach from her stomach, DFA said, adding doctors also found burn marks on her back.

Based on information reaching the DFA, Mancilla suffered physical abuse regularly since working for her employer in 2016. She was also refused pay for her work.

Consul General Edgar Badajos said the consulate "will regularly send representatives to Jizan to follow up her case with the police and to look into her condition."

Badajos has also requested the Filipino community to keep an eye on the Mancilla.

Badajos said Consulate officials have visited Mancilla and made representations with authorities in Jizan to make sure the appropriate charges were filed against her employer, who was later arrested by police.

During his visit to Pahima Alagasi, the OFW who returned home four years after her Saudi employer poured boiling water on her, last Saturday, President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated that the government is doing everything it can to put an end to abuses against Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East.

Duterte has ordered the ban on deployment of OFWs to Kuwait following reports of abuses, among them the killing of Joanna Demafelis, whose body was found inside a freezer in an unoccupied apartment last February. —Rie Takumi/KBK, GMA News

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