The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has asked the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to conduct its own autopsy of the remains of Jeanelyn Villavende, the household service worker who allegedly died of torture in the hands of her employer in Kuwait.
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said they want to verify the findings of the Kuwaiti authorities who had conducted its autopsy.
“For our own satisfaction, especially the President, we want validation from our own NBI,” Bello said.
Villavende’s death certificate stated that the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) died of “acute failure of (the) heart and respiration as (a) result (of) shock and multiple injuries (in the) vascular nervous system.”
The slain OFW’s remains will reportedly arrive at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) tomorrow and will be flown to her hometown in Mindanao.
“The Department of Foreign Affairs and OWWA (Overseas Workers Welfare Administration) Administrator Hans Cacdac might go to the airport for her,” Bello said.
“I am going to General Santos City on Friday. I will visit her there,” the Labor chief added.
The Labor Department has ordered a partial deployment ban to Kuwait following Villavende’s death.
