Another worker jumps from flat
By Titus Filio
Contributor
Jumping off flats remain a disturbing phenomenon among distressed workers. At the Salmaniya Medical Centre, hospital staff are still treating a 26-year old Thai woman who injured her left leg after jumping off from a flat last week.
Details on her case are still sketchy but a volunteers group working for migrant workers in the hospital said the Thai woman is recovering but appeared to have been traumatised.
“She is improving but there is information we can get from her,” one volunteer said.
It is not clear what kind of work the Thai woman was in. Thai Embassy officials could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Another worker jumps from flat
By Titus Filio
Contributor
Jumping off flats remain a disturbing phenomenon among distressed workers. At the Salmaniya Medical Centre, hospital staff are still treating a 26-year old Thai woman who injured her left leg after jumping off from a flat last week.
Details on her case are still sketchy but a volunteers group working for migrant workers in the hospital said the Thai woman is recovering but appeared to have been traumatised.
“She is improving but there is information we can get from her,” one volunteer said.
It is not clear what kind of work the Thai woman was in. Thai Embassy officials could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Jumping off the windows of apartments are no longer a rarity in Bahrain. One maid also jumped off a flat in Manama earlier this year to escape her employers. She accused them of abusing her. She also survived the fall.
Last year, at least five cases of Asian women, working as housemaids, were recorded to have jumped off a flat to flee abusive employers. One of them did not survive the plunge.
Rights activists and volunteers from organisations like the Migrant Workers Protection Group had appealed to authorities to check on abusive employers and deal punishment on those found to have maltreated their housemaids.
Article from: Bahrain Tribune Newspaper