Almost sent home, Indonesian worker gets health reprieve

Focus Taiwan
Date: 06/14/2020
By: Liu Kuang-ting and Joseph Yeh

Taipei, June 14 (CNA) Taiwan has extended a helping hand to an Indonesian migrant worker with a severe autoimmune disease, making it possible for her to get a much needed bone marrow transplant, according to a local non-governmental organization (NGO).

The case emerged in February when the Indonesian national, Nina Herlina, called the Taiwan International Workers' Association (TIWA), a local NGO that promotes migrant workers' rights, after her broker wanted to terminate her contract and send her home without giving a reason.

The TIWA later learned that the decision was made after doctors suspected she had aplastic anemia, an autoimmune disease in which her body fails to produce blood cells in sufficient numbers, the NGO said in a recent Facebook post.

With the help of the TIWA, the 23-year-old Indonesian was given the chance to stay in Taiwan, where she had been since October 2018 while working as a caregiver.
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