A senior official from the Philippine Consulate has become alarmed at cancer rates among domestic workers from her country in Hong Kong.
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration of the Philippine Consulate General in Hong Kong plans to compile a database of domestic workers who have become ill in the city.
The idea started when Virsie Tamayao, the Welfare Attaché, was baffled after her office handled many medical cases involving cancer patients, the sunwebhk.com reported.
However, Tamayao could not provide exact figures due to a lack of statistics. At the end of June, a female worker suffering from cancer went home. At about the same time, a former domestic worker who had overstayed in Hong Kong for 10 years was taken to hospital in Kowloon with advanced-stage cancer.
Recently, long-time mission volunteer Violy Macatol went home after falling seriously ill with a rare type of blood cancer. Lily Jimenez, a political activist in Hong Kong for more than 20 years, also flew home after being diagnosed with late-stage bone cancer.
Tamayao, who had also been assigned to Abu Dhabi and South Korea, said only in Hong Kong she had seen cancer so prevalent among domestic workers. She said she wanted to study people’s lifestyles, what they eat, their stress levels and working environment to compile a database.
She said the administration had been preparing its first-semester report on death statistics and hopefully, could make a comparative study on the causes.
True sis.
medical check up, working hour at food ang dapat ipatupad dto sa HK.
Korek k dyan sis
most of us in hongkong we are eating a left over foods and maybe some causes is the the cleaning detergent that we used for cleaning..
Sg diba ano ba naka lagay medical checkup is only blood pregnancy at HIV EVERY TWO YRS XRAY KONG MY TB .. DIBA DI NMAN NQKA SALI ANG CANCER MAKUHA SA MEDICAL OI
My employer is a medical specialist in UK .canser couse sa food chemical Kaya tingnan nyo mga puti organic sila at di sila mahilig sa fry fry bake Lang salad ….
Ate medical checkup is dugo pregnancy test HIV LANG NMAN REQUIRED….NOT BUONG KATAWAN ….SA Hk Kasi unlike sa sg na lahat pag Kain DITO NASA standard ….
My helper is currently being treated for breast cancer thanks to the Philippine Consulate for arranging the screening
Ipatupad man po nila ang every three/six month check up mas lalala lng po sakit ng mga ofw kasi dagdag isipin at gastos either on ofw side or employer side
mostly cancer patients is from stress, lack of vitamins rest n the food intake as are not healthy enough
Daming causes…mostly SA friends ko cup noodles pagkain..
hindi kaya dhil laging reheat sa microwave ang kinakain?
Cancer survivor ako
Stress # 1,
Pagkain ng meat n sobra,lack of sleep,pagkain ng mga unhealthy foods,
Madami cause Di lang smoking at drinking,ako wala bisyo,pero dinapuan ng cancer dito s HK, Tnx God,3 yrs ng free pero iwas p din s mga bawal
1. Stress level,
2. work environment
3. family back home
4. resting time
5. eating habit
Contributes on most of the ofw health.
Most of the time were sick but were always ignoring it; we just take pain reliever and were on the go again.
cancer risk kasi mga kinakain natin karamihan especially yung mga hindi food allowance puro instant noodles..kulang sa tulog overworked at stressed
Smoking and drinking is just one key to getting cancer.
I think it is the stress and poor diet that trigger more.
I myself is neither a drinker nor a smoker but I was diagnosed with cancer.
Kind of unfair naman miss???? though I’m a none smoker and drinker myself. Hindi ba pde na dahil din sa STRESS?! As we all know how our life here had been, as a domestic helper. Most of us here suffer from stress, emotionally, mentally and physically.
As we know… STRESS is the root of all sickness!
Should have a medical check up every six months thank you.
Yes,dapat i required ang medical rveru 6 months para maging maingat mga ofw sa health nila,mostly kc pag dya off nagiinom sila at nag smoke.
Dapat po kasi maipatupad po ang medical check up at least every six months as what they have in Singapore, to make sure that domestic workers are in good health..