AN expatriate man who survived a stroke in Bahrain has reunited with his family in his home town.
Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Jun Inocentes Perez suffered intracranial haemorrhage (acute bleeding inside the brain) in August last year, leaving him completely paralysed.
The former employee of Eastern Asphalt and Mix Concrete Company and a long-term resident for 15 years was under treatment at Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) for six months before doctors deemed him fit to fly.
He is currently recovering at his residence in Rodriguez, Rizal with his family.
Mr Perez was escorted on a stretcher by two Bahraini nurses on a Gulf Air flight to the Philippines last week.
“Prior to his medical repatriation, Mr Perez had been confined at the SMC for six months while recovering in order to be fit enough to endure the nine-hour flight,” said the Philippines Embassy in a statement yesterday.
“Flight restrictions brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic situation also contributed to the delay in the repatriation of Mr Perez,” it added.
The embassy lauded the gesture of Mr Perez’s employer who covered all expenses related to the repatriation, which amounted to more than half a million pesos (around BD3,700).
The mission co-ordinated with the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, an agency of the Department of Migrant Workers of the Philippines government and other agencies on the arrangements to receive Mr Perez upon his arrival in the Philippines.
After he landed in the Philippines, he was taken to the East Avenue Medical Centre in Quezon City for evaluation of his health condition, and for further routine tests.
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