Female worker returns from Saudi Arabia in ‘psychologically unstable’ state
A female migrant worker returned home from Saudi Arabia in the early hours today in a "psychologically unstable state" after being allegedly tortured by her employer in the Gulf country, Brac said today.
With her, as many as 68 migrant workers, including 61 female migrants who were employed as domestic help, returned home with psychological health issues from different countries in the last two years, Brac said in a release.
These migrant workers were provided with psychosocial counselling before they were sent to their family members, said Shariful Hasan, head of Brac Migration Programme.
Although the exact number of migrant workers who return with psychological issue is unknown, Brac has been informed about such cases frequently by police and expatriates' welfare desk at the airport, Shariful said.
In the latest incident, the female migrant worker arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the early hours today, Brac said.
She was brought under the safety after authorities noticed her wandering in the airport area. The female worker's identity could be known from the papers she was carrying with her. Expatriates' welfare desk later handed her over to Brac.
The female was sent as a domestic worker to Saudi Arabia's Jeddah by a recruiting agency in November, 2018.
Her family members in Naogaon alleged she was tortured by her employer six months into her job in the Gulf country and that she was in jail for three months.
She was deported after she was provided with a "travel pass" from Saudi Arabia, Brac said.
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