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.
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Mr Jason Ang if you are in that situation what do you feel?…you are debating about Tuberculosis…hahaaaa..
Did she receive any compensation from her employer?
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.
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.
so much work without rest and no good sleep without enough food can cause teberculoses. ask your doctor .idiot
Hahaha…I enjoyed reading the comments.Some still does’nt know about tuberculosis..
work hours should also be specific in contracts for awareness of both employers and employee….and to avoid work hours abuse as well
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.
Over work AND LACK OF SLEEP!
Jason Ang you are a smart ass..you edited your reading dumb ass..over work AND LACK OF SLEEP! CAUSES TB NOOB!
korek..its a stress related disease….wjen u are stressed all the sickness in the world might have the possibility to infect u…
So sad to say, Jason ang your idiot!
Haven’t graduate high school yet? Come on!
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.
Jason Ang you are right that it doesn’t acquire automatically BUT working overload will definitely triggers the illness
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 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
Lack of sleep and you just eat indo me try to fit in her shoe you will understand
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