KUWAIT CITY, May 24: The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait brushed off a report published on local dailies about a Filipina who committed suicide as untrue.
The Head of the Assistance to Nationals Unit at the Philippine Embassy Dalidig Ibrahim Tanandato upon reading the news on the local dailies on Thursday dispatched embassy attaché Muamar Hassan to check with the police authorities in Jabriya and verify the report about the housemaid who allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with a rope in her sponsor’s home in Jabriya.
 “According to police authorities in Jabriya, there was no report about a Filipina who hanged herself to death,  however, there was a  Filipina household service worker who jumped off the second floor of her employer’s house in Jabriya last May 22 and was rushed to the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital. Her case number is 270/2012,” informed Tanandato.
Based on the information gathered by Hassan, the 40-year old Filipina household service worker who hails from Antique Province in Southern Philippines suffered minor bruises in various parts of her body and her medical record shows that she sustained mild hemorrhage in her brain due to the fall.
“Mar Hassan visited the Filipina HSW at the hospital and according to her, she did not commit suicide. She was cleaning the windows alone on the second floor when she heard someone, some voice telling her to jump, prompting her to jump,” pointed out Tanandato. The Filipina HSW informed the embassy attachÈ that she has no problem with her employer as everyone in that household has been good to her. She has been with that household for six years now.
The embassy also contacted the employer who informed them that she has been good to the family and they have no complaints against her.
However, according to the employer, days before she jumped off the window, she asked him to buy him a ticket to go home to the Philippines prompting him to suspect that her family might be experiencing some problems.
“The employer gave her KD150 but she did not buy the ticket.  According to her, she sent KD 110 to her husband and kept the KD 40,” stated Tanandato.
The Filipina HSW is married to a construction worker and has three kids who are all in college. “She told Mr. Hassan and also her employer that she still wants to work once she has fully recovered because she needs to support her kids to college,” stated Tanandato.
Meanwhile, Tanandato appealed to the local media to exercise due diligence in verifying reports before publishing them.