Type of issue: access to medical treatment, quality of medical treatment
Here's the second of our monthly summaries about Covid-19 related numbers and milestones, gleaned from media and government statements.
Injured workers who need to attend hospital follow-ups get caught in overly-strict rules about leaving their dorms for appointments. They might miss their doctor dates.
Workers' experiences during the lock-down: a sister helping another who lost her job, a worker who came to Singapore and found a missing employer, a worker stuck here worried about his collapsing house...
Workers' experiences during the lock-down: about anxiety, life in a temporary hospital, vanishing salaries, financial disaster. Also about the things going on at TWC2: donations pouring in and volunteers running around.
Workers tell us of their experiences during the lock-down. Here is a miscellaneous collection of their direct experiences -- about getting fever, the long wait for test results and not getting wifi.
A worker under TWC2's care was diagnosed with Covid-19. What does treatment and recovery for a foreign worker feel like? What unresolved issues remain? We interview him by phone.
Some employers impose penalties for workers falling sick In these Covid-19 times, this is a dangerous practice. Such company polices must be stamped out for good.
The increase in cases in quarantined and non-quarantined dorms are compared in this article, It is clearly worse in non-quarantined dorms. Why is that so?
A worker in a quarantined dorm needs a painkiller for his hip which had suffered a work injury. But where can he get the tablets? There are no doctors or pharmacists around.
They shouldn't have to choose; the law cannot be any clearer. Yet these cases aren't rare.
