A Filipino maid who refused to renew her contract with her Hong Kong employers was reportedly forced to overwork and eventually fell ill with tuberculosis.
In September, the domestic worker named Warren B told her employers that she would not renew her contract because of her unfavorable health situation, sunwebhk.com reported, without disclosing her age.
Her employers then started increasing her workload, telling her that she had to finish all of her work before going to bed.
Most days, she was unable to get any sleep until 3am and had to get up just a few hours later. The earliest time she was able to get to bed was 11pm. She became exhausted by her heavy workload and lack of sleep.
On October 15, a fellow domestic worker noticed Warren had difficulty breathing, was coughing frequently and had a high fever. She took Warren to Queen Mary Hospital, where doctors diagnosed her with tuberculosis.
After suffering from high fever and coughing for 10 days, she was transferred to Grantham Hospital in Aberdeen on October 25. She was confined to the hospital until her health improved.
She received medical treatment for a month and was finally able to leave the hospital on November 14. With her employment contract now expired, she could finally return to her home in Cebu in the Philippines, which she did immediately after being given clearance that she was fit to travel.
In Hong Kong, employers or employees are required to give a one-month notice if they want to terminate an employment contract or the contract is going to expire.
So it’s stated there that the helper is already unfavorable health condition and you add also the overload work given by the employer. Do you think the helper condition will be worsen or she will feel better. It’s common sense! Once your health condition is not doing good and you do more over workload your immune system will be weaken and that may lead to tuberculosis. Just saying!
Jayson Ang read this one
Gago din ipagpilitan paniniwala nya eh over worked nga c kabayan at la maayos n tulog kya nagkasakit d makaintindi.Subukan kya nya iover worked sarili nya at d matulog ng maayos kng d manghina immune system nya bka mas malala pa sa TB makuha nya n sakit.
Jason Ang, try to learn and educate ur self before u start commenting, coz obviously ur words speak volume about you..
She was sick then sir,it might got worst when she doesn’t have enough sleep and overworked… you put your feet in our shoes and tell us how does it feel….
Jason Ang..it could be the poor ventilation inside the house, FYI most domestic helper are sleeping with a cube box room with damp clothing hanging for drying and clothes drying machines..I Google the consequences of the drying machines inside the maids room without proper ventilations could caused certain kind of sickmnes , unfortunately that’s what she acquired..I’m only speculating because the terrible heat of the machines Without the window ..since employers concern more of the machine so it’s facing only by the window on maids room ..and many other aspects.
Jason Ang napaka Ang Ang m she got to it simply bcos her immune system was been weak more than a week coughing have few consequences first it will cause pneumonia, brocho pneumonia and some other related illness so since she was suffering more than a week coughing without any proper medication was given maybe, and still doing all the task that employer gave to her of course it will be worsen keep coughing may cause scratch to her lungs and that then tuberculosis will develop. Try to read sometimes and broaden your knowledge before you insist your own stupid opinion.
Better all abuses employer on block list than lots of helper suffering in them!
Jason Ang , i fill shame n pity of you. You are a “poor guy” n how can you educate your descendent…
so you are telling me that the enployer found a way to overwork a maid in hk’s small houses? What could you possibly be doing
My friend employer overworked her maid by washing shoes.clean the window.ask her not to sleep until they all sleep n many things…okay we r not like Sebastian in black butler that don’t need to sleep at all we r human
Lack of sleep and you just eat indo me try to fit in her shoe you will understand
Jason Ang hey you are not even know how did she got that illness must read the news first before you argue everyone ok because ib the first place you are 100%unreasonable sir
If an individual is exhausted and lack of sleep for a long period of time the immune system weakened that leads to someone to easily get infected to any kind of diseases.hope you understand now the connection of over fatigued leads to diseases
Jason Ang you are right that it doesn’t acquire automatically BUT working overload will definitely triggers the illness
Until now its still a nightmare for the whole family the lost of my cousin,she is only 37 and yes tuberculosis is a very slow viral bacterias wich is lucky to be prevented if you live a healthy and stress free life..but because of poor healthy lifestyle that in general my fellow helpers encountered from thier employeers this factor triggered the bacteria to spread easily and multiply faster due to poor and weak immune system,.we as family of my cousin still cant believe that a young,happy and loooking healthy woman like her at the early age of 37 died as faster as this!and leaving her daughter at an early age of 7 yrs old only???????????? i am sharing this to enlightened all our minds that health is wealth and hope both parties…employeer and employees understand that sometimes giving and taking is important.
So sad to say, Jason ang your idiot!
Haven’t graduate high school yet? Come on!
korek..its a stress related disease….wjen u are stressed all the sickness in the world might have the possibility to infect u…
Jason Ang you are a smart ass..you edited your reading dumb ass..over work AND LACK OF SLEEP! CAUSES TB NOOB!
Over work AND LACK OF SLEEP!
Are you out of your senses? I have a friend who was working with a very small house. She always slept at 12 midnight and woke up at 6am. You ask me why? First thing in the morning after she cooked and fed her employer`s child and send to school.she will started feed her employer and clean the house. Go to the market.prepare the food again for her employer.then feed them.cleaning the kitchen after that she will do hand washing of her employers clothes. Ironing clothes. HAND WASH even if there is a washing machine to make her work much easier and do other chores at the same time. And when she finishes her chores, then collect the child from school and give his food and give him shower or anything the child needs.then she have to start working in the kitchen until late night. And the worst thing is. She have to clean every pages of her employer`s book every other day. PAGES OF HER EMPLOYER`S book. And how many books does her employer has been cleaned in the past 1 year 6 months? You guess how many of them. Im sure u will know it as your heart should be the same of her employer. Black and so much dirt.She could not take it anymore that is why she has to break her contract with that called INSANE employer. Now she have finally found a very nice family with a GOOD HEART.
work hours should also be specific in contracts for awareness of both employers and employee….and to avoid work hours abuse as well
Hahaha…I enjoyed reading the comments.Some still does’nt know about tuberculosis..
so much work without rest and no good sleep without enough food can cause teberculoses. ask your doctor .idiot
Jason Ang – With all due respect Sir, I think you did’nt fully understand the report. It’s a mandatory for all domestic helpers not just here in Hong Kong to be physically fit. So no one is allowed to work overseas if she/he suffer any sort of illness which may affect her workload especially if the illness is contagious like tuberculosis. So eventually Sir, she don’t have that kind of illness when she started working here in Hong Kong. The point here Sir which you do not fully understand is that, "SHE DOES’NT WANT TO RENEW HER CONTRACT BECAUSE SHE’S NOT FIT ANYMORE. SHE KNEW FOR HERSELF THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH HER THAT’S WHY SHE WANTED TO GO HOME. THE EMPLOYER SHOULD NOT BE ANGRY ABOUT HER DECISION BECAUSE ONCE THE HELPER FINISHED HER CONTRACT, SHE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO STAY OR LOOK FOR ANOTHER EMPLOYER. HER CONDITION GOT WORST WHEN HER EMPLOYER OVERWORKED HER." That’s the main point here Sir. The only missing point of this report is that they did not elaborate further the other factors that cause her to acquire that kind of disease. They only focused on her being exhausted.
If a person is not having enough sleep,not enough rest and don’t have nutrious food.eventually the person’s health will be compromised.especially the lungs.
Did she receive any compensation from her employer?
Mr Jason Ang if you are in that situation what do you feel?…you are debating about Tuberculosis…hahaaaa..
just shocking
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Hahaha.tanga nman nito ni sir ang..ayw pa patalo..alam n mali xa ipag pipilitan p din ang katwirang baluktot..tsk tsk..sir mga pinay kmi..????????????..
Jason Ang Perhaps,you’re so worcaholic,that you didn’t even notice the symptoms of having tuberculosis.Having not enough sleep,causes overfatigue that may lead to such illness especially if you are lacking to eat nutritious food.