{"id":11275,"date":"2025-01-17T01:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=11275"},"modified":"2025-01-17T01:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:38:45","slug":"remains-of-ofw-who-died-in-kuwait-arrive-in-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/remains-of-ofw-who-died-in-kuwait-arrive-in-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"REMAINS OF OFW WHO DIED IN KUWAIT ARRIVE IN PH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE remains of the overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who died in Kuwait have &nbsp;finally arrived in the Philippines on Thursday or almost a week after her family received a wrong cadaver.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) confrmed the arrival of the remains of OFW Jenny Alvarado in Para\u00f1aque City at around 5:20 p.m. on Thursday via Kuwait Airways flight KU 417.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>DMW Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac , DMW Undersecretary Felicitas Bay, a team from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), and Alvarado\u2019s family welcomed her remains upon its arrival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The remains of Alvarado will undergo autopsy as requested by her family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cacdac said the DMW is providing assistance to Alvarado\u2019s family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>He added that the Philippine government is in close coordination with Kuwaiti authorities to monitor the investigation of the incident that led to Alvarado\u2019s death, together with two other foreign co-workers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alvarado reportedly died due to coal suffocation<\/strong><strong> after inhaling smoke from a heating system in their workplace<\/strong><strong>, but her family believes otherwise based on the state of her co-worker\u2019s remains.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>On January 10, the sadness of Alvarado\u2019s family turned to anger after they mistakenly received the body of her Nepali co-worker instead of her cadaver.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Our lawyer is still on the ground. I&#8217;ve been apprised about the applicable Kuwaiti law, and yes, we are moving ahead with the filing of claims against whoever, hindi ko muna papangalanan pa kung sino but whoever caused the mistake or the error,&#8221; Cacdac said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alvarado left behind three children who are all minors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE remains of the overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who died in Kuwait have &nbsp;finally arrived in the Philippines on Thursday or almost a week after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11277,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions\/11277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}