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OFW died of Mers-CoV in Saudi Arabia, says family
By Nash Maulana
Inquirer Mindanao
6:18 pm | Sunday, April 20th, 2014
COTABATO CITY, Philippines ? An overseas Filipino worker from Maguindanao, who had worked in Saudi Arabia about five years already, recently died of suspected Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (Mers-CoV), the family said here.
Tidting Khalifa of Matanog, Maguindanao, said her 44-year old daughter, Husna, had been taken to the King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah and died there on April 12.
Husna, he said, had been in Saudi Arabia since 2009, on an assumed passport belonging to a Norisa Naing.
?It was given to her by her recruiter,? he said, without identifying the recruiter.
Khalifa, quoting information the family got from sources ? including other relatives working in Jeddah ? said his daughter had suffered from flu-like symptoms before being taken to the King Fahd hospital.
But she died a few days later.
Her remains were buried there due to quarantine restrictions, he said...
OFW died of Mers-CoV in Saudi Arabia, says family
By Nash Maulana
Inquirer Mindanao
6:18 pm | Sunday, April 20th, 2014
COTABATO CITY, Philippines ? An overseas Filipino worker from Maguindanao, who had worked in Saudi Arabia about five years already, recently died of suspected Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (Mers-CoV), the family said here.
Tidting Khalifa of Matanog, Maguindanao, said her 44-year old daughter, Husna, had been taken to the King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah and died there on April 12.
Husna, he said, had been in Saudi Arabia since 2009, on an assumed passport belonging to a Norisa Naing.
?It was given to her by her recruiter,? he said, without identifying the recruiter.
Khalifa, quoting information the family got from sources ? including other relatives working in Jeddah ? said his daughter had suffered from flu-like symptoms before being taken to the King Fahd hospital.
But she died a few days later.
Her remains were buried there due to quarantine restrictions, he said...
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