THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday confirmed the death of a Filipina worker based in Kuwait.
The DFA said the female overseas worker was found dead in her room in the Al-Salam Area on March 14.
Police were called to her room after neighbors noticed that she hadn’t come out all morning. Cops had to break open the door to her room to enter it.
Initial reports state that the manner of death is consistent with suicide.
The DFA, however, said they are still waiting for the results of the forensic examination.
The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait is closely monitoring the case, according to the DFA.
There are some 241,000 OFWs in Kuwait, according to recent government data.
The Filipina household service worker (HSW) was found hanging and with a cut in her wrist inside her room, according to a report to the Department of Labor (DoLE).
In a report, dated March 17, Labor Attache to the Middle East Nasser Mustafa identified the overseas worker as Gladys Olarte Fong, a household help for Fahad Naji Ibrahim Alholi, a Kuwaiti.
The report was addressed to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd, Undersecretary Claro A. Arellano, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac, and International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB) Director Alice Visperas.
Kuwaiti police, who responded to the distress call by the victim’s employer, brought Fong to the hospital but was declared dead on arrival.
“Per report, she was found dead in her room hanging with a cut on her wrist,” Mustafa’s letter read.
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) records show that Fong was deployed by TMJ International Manpower Services on April 19, 2019 and had been working for the same employer for the past three years.
Mustafa said Fong’s remains were brought to a mortuary for forensic investigation to determine the real cause of her death.
