Then she switches in mid-sentence to a trip with her employers to Dubai, where she says she had a migraine attack and was taken to hospital. They wanted to inject me in order to end my life because my employer had praised my work after viewing it through cameras hidden all over the house. Dolor is clearly still unwell. In these circumstances, if the symptoms do not clear up in three months, the patient could slip into schizophrenia, Bascara says. Imagine their reaction on finding out that their only hope of climbing out of poverty has landed in a hospital instead of earning lots of money.
Some overseas workers snap early.
Separated from her husband and left with a daughter, she went to Singapore as a domestic helper in 1985. She says they expected her to clean all three homes. Lunch was her employers' leftovers and she was not allowed dinner until her 17-hour day was finished. She returned to the Philippines in April this year and was admitted to Sunrise Hill the same day, convinced that her employers had been trying to poison her. Last year, more than one out of every four cases handled by Sunrise Hill involved workers returning from Taiwan.