OWWA Assures Assistance for OFW Who Died in Bahrain Airport
OWWA Administrator Rebecca Calzado. File photograph by Eric Apolonio
MANILA – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) said on Saturday that it will extend the necessary assistance to the family of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who died in a clinic at the Bahrain airport while on his way home to the Philippines.
This was the assurance given by OWWA Administrator Rebecca Calzado, who pointed out that the OFW is an active member of OWWA, therefore, the family is eligible to received the prescribed benefits.
Calzado said the family is entitled to death and burial benefits in the amount of P120,000.00 if the cause of death is natural, and P220,000.00 if the cause of death is due to accident.
While at the Bahrain airport en route to the Philippines last month, the 37-year-old OFW from Santiago City, Isabela reportedly sought help and was brought to the clinic, where he died.
Calzado said that psycho-social counseling will also be extended to the family of the victim to help “cushion the impact of the demise of their loved one.”
“We send our condolences and sympathies to the grieving family of the worker, and we hope that they will recover in time. I know how it is to lose a loved one,” she said.
She also assured that OWWA is coordinating with the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Jeddah for the repatriation of the remains of the worker.