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.
Una po sa lahat, we are conplaining about food, most eapecially for breakfast n lunch.eatibg noodles always and old foodsbor left over foods.we suggest as domestic helper here in hongkong that they should give our food alawance so we can eat our food properly..dapat po isa batas po ang food alawans namin mam.kc madaming mga employers ang basta nakakain cla pero ang katulong nila, pinapabayaan..salamat po dapat po action agad para iwas sa sakit po..salamat po ng madami..
Steve Goodlay I’m not into tin food actually.
And would you kindly explain what you meant for dirty foreigners for extras?
Also may I add that it’s also in my genes.
Hays katakot namn nyan ako puro left over lunch ko geezz at laging reheat sa microwave
Medical check up regularly ang kailngan…. Itong bnsa nmn na ito ang kakaiba, smantalng sa ibng bnsa, pindadalhan pa ng letters ng gobyerno. At may duedate pa na dpt mkpg pasa ka ng result ng medical mo….lalo na at ang pgkain kadalasan dto sala sa mga tera terahang pagkain, magnonoodles nlng…
Tanong lng mga guys ano ba ang karamdaman ng ganyan n sakit…salamat sa sasagot..God bless you all
Because of Over work. Less number of hours sleep. Not enough food. Most of the time noodles. Instant noodles to be specific.
Seguro dahil karamihan dito kulang sa hustong tulog,kulang din sa pagkain dahil minsan noodles lang pinapakain ng amo at ung iba naman nalilipasan pa ng gutom.
True
Sana tulad s Singapore helper got medical check up every6 months .we pray for this to implement here in hongkong too
they like can food
Korekk tlga kahit gaano kasama pakiramdam tuloy parin trabho
Fevie Borja Patilano, no kailangan talaga natin ng medical every 6 month kagaya sa Taiwan at Singapore para sa ating kalusugan
Fevie Borja Patilano ,saan ba nadedetect Ang cancer dba sa blood dib
At least kht sa ganung paraan sis mamaintain ang kalusugan.. Saka doon every renewal may xray naman. Saka pag nagkasakit ka doon agad kang punapacheck up.. Dito some of the employers ay hindi..
Avoid microwave food po also street food
Buti nlng ako every bkasyon ko sa pinas pag balik ko pina medical ako at buong ktawan tlga.pag may mkita na kakaiba pinapa doc.ako thanks God for having good employer .
Wenaweng Genolos yes true …stress tlaga at over fatigue yan ang no.1 cause of sickness bakit naman sa atin sa pinas daming manginginom at sunog baga pa kung tawagin mad healthy pa nga sila kesa sa hindi umuiinom at naninigarilyo….
yan na seguro yong results sa overnight food na ipinakakain sa atin,omg
Tama sis,overworked,, nodles kinakain,stress,.. Kulang talaga sa pahinga kasi halos nag 24hrs pa kung may binatayan ka na bta at matanda.
Wenaweng Genolos ur r right kabayan, no. 1 ang stress