Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/30
By: Kuan Jui-pin and Kuan-lin Liu
Taipei, Nov. 30 (CNA) An Indonesian migrant caretaker expressed her appreciation on
Amy (right) and her doctor Lin Jing-wang (林敬旺, left)
Thursday for the excellent health care services in Taiwan, without which she would likely have died from cancer and its related complications.
Amy, a 31-year-old Indonesian caretaker, has been working at a home in Miaoli County for over two years.
On Nov. 3, her employer rushed her to the county’s Da Chien General Hospital when she showed signs of renal edema, or swelling of her kidneys.
Doctors found that she had stage 3 cervical cancer, with a 7-centimeter tumor that pressed against her pelvis, therefore blocking her ureter. [FULL STORY]