Bed-ridden Lankan maid in Kuwait seeks help

KUWAIT: A Sri Lankan maid who was employed in a house in Kuwait is now bed-ridden for eight months without any help at Al Razi hospital in Kuwait following crude ill-treatment by her masters, sources from Kuwait said.

Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Chandrani Dissanayake, passport number N0105421 was in the ICU for over two months. During this period she had undergone seven surgeries two third of her body is full of steel plates, they said.

Her right arm is broken from her elbow to her wrist and right leg is broken from the knee to the ankle with a broken spinal cord. She is totally disabled for life.

She was allegedly thrown from the sixth floor of a building by her master’s brother, where the man tried to rape her.

As she attempted to defend herself, she fell on a hard surface and was unconscious. The man threw her down from the sixth floor. A statement was taken from her when she was in the ICU and she couldn’t even speak, the sources said.

Before she was recruited by her sponsor she had paid bureau charges in Sri Lanka but todate no action has been taken to this effect. Her only wish is to return to her country.

Her phone number is 009654431906.

Referring to the report, the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) said yesterday that they had kept a track record regarding the incident through the Kuwait Embassy for some time and had taken all measures to bring the migrant worker back home A SLBFE spokesman said they had received news that the worker was to be released from hospital in about two weeks and had made all arrangements to bring her back.

They added that there was an investigation regarding the incident through the Embassy in Kuwait while the SLBFE too would launch a separate probe as soon as the female domestic worker returns home.

They will also take steps to provide compensation and was also in the process of garnering support for possible compensation from the Kuwait side as well as soon as the investigation reaches a conclusion, SLBFE sources said.

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