A former OFW from Abu Dhabi will soon fulfil her wish to spend her remaining days together with her family in the Philippines after she was diagnosed with cancer.
The Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi repatriated a group of OFWs, including the cancer patient, with the help of UAE authorities as well as the Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs (OUMWA-DFA) in the Philippines.
When their plane landed last May 29, the OFW was immediately taken to a hospital in Las Piñas for medical evaluation.
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Philippine Ambassador to the UAE, H.E. Hjayceelyn Quintana thanked Philippine authorities for acting swiftly to address the backlog situation. “The Philippine Missions in the UAE, together with OUMWA-DFA and Philippine authorities, continue to work together to find ways to ease COVID-19-related PH airport restrictions to allow Filipinos from UAE to return home, in response to their urgent pleas.”
Apart from the cancer patient, several OFWs from the UAE are also set to be reunited with their families despite the daily limit imposed by IATF on overseas Filipinos. All repatriates are set to do their 14-day quarantine at a medical facility assigned by the government as they await results of their swab test.
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