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Showing posts with label HONG KONG OFW. Show all posts
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Monday, October 09, 2017

Watch The Video and be The Judge: OFW Remitter VS Money Transfer Teller in Hong Kong



Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) work abroad for the sake of their family. After a tiring month, all the OFWs await is the salary which will stay on their hands for maybe a couple of hours and they are all gone. They will immediately bring it to the remittance center to send to their family. The OFWs first priority when they landed abroad is to find out where they can be able to send money. That is why remittance centers aywhere in the world are the places mostly populated by OFWs during the days where salaries are expected to be released. Most remittance center tellers practice "service with a smile." However, in very rare instances, there are some tellers who are ill-mannered and lacking good customer service. Just like what happened to a remittance center in Hong Kong. Sponsored Links In a viral video, A Filipina OFW would be seen having a heated argument with a remittance center teller who is also a Filipina. They can be seen on video cursing and exchanging insults. According to the uploader, a Filipina OFW rushed to the remittance center to send money for her family back home. Later that she realized that the money intended to be sent to Palawan Express has been sent to Cebuana Lhuillier. The remitter voiced her complain to the teller. As the argument heated, bad remarks has been thrown to both of them, easily became a word-war. A scene that is so disappointing to see especially on a situation that they are both Filipinos. Netizens are dismayed on the behavior of the teller to think that they are, being both Filipinos in a foreign territory has to look after each other and extend help if needed. The teller even told the OFW that she will make her deported. Advertisement Read More: ©2017 THOUGHTSKOTO
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Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) work abroad for the sake of their family. After a tiring month, all the OFWs await is the salary which will stay on their hands for maybe a couple of hours and they are all gone. They will immediately bring it to the remittance center to send to their family. The OFWs first priority when they landed abroad is to find out where they can be able to send money. That is why remittance centers aywhere in the world are the places mostly populated by OFWs during the days where salaries are expected to  be released.
Most remittance center tellers practice "service with a smile." However, in very rare instances, there are some tellers who are ill-mannered and lacking good customer service.
Just like what happened to a remittance center in Hong Kong.

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In a viral video, A Filipina OFW  would be seen having a heated argument with a remittance center teller who is also a Filipina. They can be seen on video cursing and exchanging insults.
According to the uploader, a  Filipina OFW rushed to the remittance center to send money for her family back home. Later that she realized that the money intended to be sent to Palawan Express has been sent to Cebuana Lhuillier. The remitter voiced her complain to the teller.
As the argument heated, bad remarks has been thrown to both of them, easily became a word-war. A scene that is so disappointing to see especially on a situation that they are both Filipinos. Netizens are dismayed on the behavior of the teller to think that they are,  being both Filipinos in a foreign territory has to look after each other and extend help if needed. The teller even told the OFW that she will make her deported.

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Sunday, July 23, 2017

Deadly Flu Strikes Hong Kong As Chief Executive Calls For Action

Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam has called on the Hospital Authority to come up with urgent measures “very soon” as medical facilities grapple with a flu crisis that has left 208 people dead since May. The unusually strong outbreak of summer flu was putting hospitals under pressure, with patients waiting for at least six hours to see doctors. Those being admitted for confinement after ­initial treatment took up to 15 hours to get a hospital bed. As of last week, the overall ­occupation rate of ­general medical wards at public hospitals was 111%. The rate at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kowloon was 124%, while at Pok Oi Hospital, Yuen Long, and Prince of Wales Hospital, Sha Tin, it was 122% and 120% ­respectively. Dr Cheung Wai-lun, the Health Authority’s acting chief executive, said the flu outbreak this year was “unusual" and that “In the past two weeks, some 1,000 patients needed to be admitted to general medical wards of public hospitals every day. Usually, such a situation would last about two or three days and we would be able to cope with it. But this year, it lasted for more than 10 days,” he said. Some hospitals had resorted to adding more beds, or offering a subsidy to get medical staff on holiday back to work. Non-urgent surgery had also been postponed. He warned the flu season could stretch beyond October and urged the sick to be patient. The health authority announced an extra HK$20 million in spending to secure 48 beds at a private hospital over the next two months to cope with the crisis. That is on top of the extra 8,300 places offered at public general outpatient clinics. Letters have been sent to all doctors from the Department of Health asking them to work part-time in the clinics outside their working hours, but fewer than 10 doctors have volunteered to work at overcrowded public hospitals on their days off. A top infectious diseases expert has warned that the mutation of a dominant flu strain may be the factor behind the surge of cases this summer. Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, chair professor of Hong Kong University's microbiology department, said the dominant strain influenza A H3N2 in the city this summer might have mutated in a way that made vaccines used in the past two years ineffective. This “antigenic variation” in the A(H3N2) virus was also recently found by Danish researchers. They concluded "low vaccine effectiveness" against this particular strain of the flu virus A(H3N2). Official figures showed that close to 41 per cent of respiratory specimens taken by the authority last week tested positive for flu viruses, reaching a new high this year. The number of H3N2 virus samples tested with mutation had increased from 20 per cent in March to more than 35 per cent in May this year. At the same time, the effectiveness of the vaccines administered to the public late last year was diminishing – lasting about only six months. It is not clear how many among the sick or have died involve Overseas Filipino Workers. Hong Kong has a huge number of foreign domestic helpers, mainly from the Philippines and Indonesia. But a recent facebook post showed a Filipino travelling from Israel via Hong Kong has died in a hospital there. The case is yet under investigation. See details below: source: SCMP




Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam has called on the Hospital Authority to come up with urgent measures “very soon” as medical facilities grapple with a flu crisis that has left 208 people dead since May.

 The unusually strong outbreak of summer flu was putting hospitals under pressure, with patients waiting for at least six hours to see doctors. Those being admitted for confinement after ­initial treatment took up to 15 hours to get a hospital bed.

 As of last week, the overall ­occupation rate of ­general medical wards at public hospitals was 111%. The rate at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kowloon was 124%, while at Pok Oi Hospital, Yuen Long, and Prince of Wales Hospital, Sha Tin, it was 122% and 120% ­respectively.

Dr Cheung Wai-lun, the Health Authority’s acting chief executive, said the flu outbreak this year was “unusual" and that “In the past two weeks, some 1,000 patients needed to be admitted to general medical wards of public hospitals every day. Usually, such a situation would last about two or three days and we would be able to cope with it. But this year, it lasted for more than 10 days,” he said.

 Some hospitals had resorted to adding more beds, or offering a subsidy to get medical staff on holiday back to work. Non-urgent surgery had also been postponed. He warned the flu season could stretch beyond October and urged the sick to be patient.
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam has called on the Hospital Authority to come up with urgent measures “very soon” as medical facilities grapple with a flu crisis that has left 208 people dead since May. The unusually strong outbreak of summer flu was putting hospitals under pressure, with patients waiting for at least six hours to see doctors. Those being admitted for confinement after ­initial treatment took up to 15 hours to get a hospital bed. As of last week, the overall ­occupation rate of ­general medical wards at public hospitals was 111%. The rate at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kowloon was 124%, while at Pok Oi Hospital, Yuen Long, and Prince of Wales Hospital, Sha Tin, it was 122% and 120% ­respectively. Dr Cheung Wai-lun, the Health Authority’s acting chief executive, said the flu outbreak this year was “unusual" and that “In the past two weeks, some 1,000 patients needed to be admitted to general medical wards of public hospitals every day. Usually, such a situation would last about two or three days and we would be able to cope with it. But this year, it lasted for more than 10 days,” he said. Some hospitals had resorted to adding more beds, or offering a subsidy to get medical staff on holiday back to work. Non-urgent surgery had also been postponed. He warned the flu season could stretch beyond October and urged the sick to be patient. The health authority announced an extra HK$20 million in spending to secure 48 beds at a private hospital over the next two months to cope with the crisis. That is on top of the extra 8,300 places offered at public general outpatient clinics. Letters have been sent to all doctors from the Department of Health asking them to work part-time in the clinics outside their working hours, but fewer than 10 doctors have volunteered to work at overcrowded public hospitals on their days off. A top infectious diseases expert has warned that the mutation of a dominant flu strain may be the factor behind the surge of cases this summer. Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, chair professor of Hong Kong University's microbiology department, said the dominant strain influenza A H3N2 in the city this summer might have mutated in a way that made vaccines used in the past two years ineffective. This “antigenic variation” in the A(H3N2) virus was also recently found by Danish researchers. They concluded "low vaccine effectiveness" against this particular strain of the flu virus A(H3N2). Official figures showed that close to 41 per cent of respiratory specimens taken by the authority last week tested positive for flu viruses, reaching a new high this year. The number of H3N2 virus samples tested with mutation had increased from 20 per cent in March to more than 35 per cent in May this year. At the same time, the effectiveness of the vaccines administered to the public late last year was diminishing – lasting about only six months. It is not clear how many among the sick or have died involve Overseas Filipino Workers. Hong Kong has a huge number of foreign domestic helpers, mainly from the Philippines and Indonesia. But a recent facebook post showed a Filipino travelling from Israel via Hong Kong has died in a hospital there. The case is yet under investigation. See details below: source: SCMP
The number of flu cases in Hong Kong so far, compared to the total number of cases in 2016

 The health authority announced an extra HK$20 million in spending to secure 48 beds at a private hospital over the next two months to cope with the crisis. That is on top of the extra 8,300 places offered at public general outpatient clinics.

 Letters have been sent to all doctors from the Department of Health asking them to work part-time in the clinics outside their working hours, but fewer than 10 doctors have volunteered to work at overcrowded public hospitals on their days off.

The H3N2 Virus has posed a problem in the US and other countries in the past years.



A top infectious diseases expert has warned that the mutation of a dominant flu strain may be the factor behind the surge of cases this summer. Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, chair professor of Hong Kong University's microbiology department, said the dominant strain influenza A H3N2 in the city this summer might have mutated in a way that made vaccines used in the past two years ineffective.

This “antigenic variation” in the A(H3N2) virus was also recently found by Danish researchers. They concluded "low vaccine effectiveness" against this particular strain of the flu virus A(H3N2).

Official figures showed that close to 41 per cent of respiratory specimens taken by the authority last week tested positive for flu viruses, reaching a new high this year. The number of H3N2 virus samples tested with mutation had increased from 20 per cent in March to more than 35 per cent in May this year. At the same time, the effectiveness of the vaccines administered to the public late last year was diminishing – lasting about only six months.

 It is not clear how many among the sick or have died involve Overseas Filipino Workers. Hong Kong has a huge number of foreign domestic helpers, mainly from the Philippines and Indonesia. But a recent facebook post showed a Filipino travelling from Israel via Hong Kong has died in a hospital there. The case is yet under investigation. See details below:




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