Malaysia is one of Asia's biggest employers of foreign labour. But recently, cases of deaths, abuse and forced labour have come to light. What is going on? Who is protecting these migrant workers?
Parliamentary Secretary to the Health Ministry Datuk Lee Kah Choon said of the number, 15,201 workers had hepatitis B, 10,569 tuberculosis, 3,937 syphilis, 2,293 were confirmed drug addicts while the rest had other diseases.
<p>"All those who failed the health screening were referred to the Immigration
Department for deportation," he said when replying to Datuk Ismail Sabri
Yaakob (BN-Bera) who wanted to know the diseases brought by foreign workers
and the action taken.</p>
<p>District health offices were also notified of the infectious diseases in accordance
with the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988.</p>
<p>Lee said the monitoring of foreign workers who came in legally was not a problem,
but not in the case of illegal immigrant workers.</p>
<p>"This is because information on the diseases they carry is not available
since they did not go for health screening," he added.</p>
<p>– BERNAMA</p>
<p><i>Source: http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=296011</i>
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