Medical treatment

24 06, 2016

Arm in sling, denied medical treatment for a year

Volunteer Writing Team2019-08-30T16:32:01+08:00June 24th, 2016|Articles, Stories|

https://youtu.be/M4VrPkuDZWg Video by Nicole Ng, text by Colin Ng The above video was produced in June 2016, sixteen months after Anowar suffered his injury. Throughout the months following the injury, Anowar did not get much-needed surgery for his shoulder. Some injury cases, like Farid’s, go smoothly and the worker receives the treatment and compensation

29 05, 2016

Delay in being given treatment complicates Arjunan’s recovery

Volunteer Writing Team2019-08-30T16:32:02+08:00May 29th, 2016|Articles, Stories|

“God’s grace is with me”, says Arjunan with a smile, as he awaits an arduous legal procedure for injury compensation By Ranjana Raghunathan Arjunan has worked in Singapore since 2008. After four years in a company, he joined the current company in November 2014. His job involved plastering and painting of ship parts, but the

12 05, 2016

Chicken pox: how TWC2 stopped it spreading

Volunteer Writing Team2019-08-30T16:32:02+08:00May 12th, 2016|Articles, Stories|

By Eugene Teo On the evening of 19 October 2015, Huq Md Mynul showed up at our free meals programme. He was running a fever and had all the signs of chicken pox over his face and body. But he was also homeless. Transient Workers Count Too immediately put him into our emergency shelter. This

3 05, 2016

Ahmmad’s life turned upside down after accident

Volunteer Writing Team2019-08-30T16:32:02+08:00May 3rd, 2016|Articles, Stories|

By Lee Zi Xin “I have nothing to do every day”, says Ahmmad, as he speaks to me about the long wait for closure of his injury compensation claim. It's been four months since the accident, and he has been out of work since. His relationship with his boss has deteriorated and his former workmates appear

20 04, 2016

Four years after the accident, Abdus still waiting for injury compensation

Volunteer Writing Team2019-08-30T16:32:03+08:00April 20th, 2016|Articles, Stories|

By Shona Mac It is a busy Monday evening at Transient Workers Count Too's Cuff Road Project and there is a throng of men queuing to receive a meal and milling around chatting to the team of volunteers. Abdus Salam is patiently waiting to speak to his TWC2 case worker who is currently busy with

16 04, 2016

Hand nearly severed, no ambulance, no paramedics called

Volunteer Writing Team2019-08-30T16:32:03+08:00April 16th, 2016|Articles, Stories|

By Jiang Haolie There was so much blood that even the bath towel wrapped around Mahbubul’s half-severed wrist was soaked. His ulnar vein was crudely ripped by a metal sheet as Mahbubul lost his footing and fell. “I cannot even talk”, Mahbubul says, recounting the immense pain he experienced, and gesturing to indicate how tears streamed

27 03, 2016

Worker says his employer wanted him to tell doctor, ‘I OK already’

Volunteer Writing Team2019-08-30T16:32:03+08:00March 27th, 2016|Articles, Stories|

By Saw Suhui Rana Masud met with an accident on the 19 May 2015. His left thumb was cut off and the hospital was not able to reattach it. They tried the first time, but in Rana’s words, it was “many problem, sensitive”, and was amputated on 15 February this year. “Thumb now no good

23 03, 2016

Paid and paid for three jobs, only to end up injured and jobless

Volunteer Writing Team2019-08-30T16:32:03+08:00March 23rd, 2016|Articles, Stories|

By Jas Kaur Abu Younus Mohammad is no novice to work in Singapore. So why is it that a man who has experience and in fact, skills, is sitting here with no job? Younus has held three jobs in Singapore. Firstly, he did a painting job for two years, for which he had paid a

22 12, 2015

Sardar knocked down and fainted, yet not sent to doctor

Volunteer Writing Team2019-08-30T16:32:22+08:00December 22nd, 2015|Articles, Stories|

By Zhan Nanxin When Alex touches Sardar Md Shamin’s shoulder, he flinches. The accident is several months ago, but should his injury be permanent, he will be unable to take up any heavy-duty job again, in Singapore or in any other country. He will be unable to support both his sisters back home in Bangladesh who

12 12, 2015

Clinic-shopping while Alam bleeds away

alex2019-08-30T16:32:22+08:00December 12th, 2015|Articles, Stories|

"Boss say I must not talking (tell others) how I accident," Alam recounts of the first hours after his forearm was torn open. "He say I must explain like this: (that) I go canteen to makan (eat), and I fall down there." "He tell other workers, nobody must talking." But when Alam Mahbubul finally got