AUTHENTICATIONDFA Repatriates OFW Injured in Yakutsk, Russia
Checking in at Moscow Domodedovo airport for her flight to Manila. Photo by C. Baggas
20 September 2017 MOSCOW – A female OFW who was injured in February of this year while escaping from her employers in Yakutsk, Russian Federation was repatriated by the Department of Foreign Affairs on September 18.
The female OFW broke her back and left leg after jumping out of a second-floor apartment where her employers illegally detained her. The Embassy immediately sent representatives to the city 450 kilometers from the Arctic Circle to extend emergency assistance. The DFA also provided financial assistance through the Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs.
The female OFW recuperated from her injuries with the assistance of a Russian benefactor until she was well enough to travel.
“We are very pleased that our Kababayan is finally able to return to the Philippines and be with her family after the ordeal that she went through,” Philippine Ambassador to Moscow Carlos D. Sorreta said. “The Embassy did its best to extend the appropriate assistance even though Yakutsk is thousands of miles away from Moscow”, he added. END
For more information, visit www.moscowpe.dfa.gov.ph.
Vice Consul Jeffrey Valdez (2nd from left) and Embassy Interpreter Ekaterina Kuznetsova (rightmost) meet with officials of Sakha Republic Hospital No. 2 where the female OFW was confined in February 2017. They were accompanied by Mr. Nikolay Diakonov, the MFA Representative in Yakutsk.
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