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PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) to repatriate three overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who perished in a fire in southern Kuwait\u2019s Mangaf area early Wednesday.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe are working on the return of the three fatalities and we\u2019re in touch \u2013 based on the Presidential directive \u2013 with all the families of the three fatalities,\u201d DMW Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac said in a news forum in Quezon City on Saturday.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Three of the 11 OFWs affected by the fire in a building housing workers for a Kuwaiti construction company died while two others are in critical condition in the hospital.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n All six others are all safe and unharmed, according to Cacdac, as they were \u201cfar away from the incident.\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He said President Marcos has also ordered DMW to closely coordinate with the families of the two OFWs still at the intensive care unit (ICU) of a Kuwaiti hospital.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cHopefully, they will recover very soon,\u201d Cacdac said.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAs for the six na safe, we are working for their repatriation. But also, we are giving them the option whether or not they wish to continue working in Kuwait. Kasi karamihan nung safe ay on duty noong panahon na \u2018yun,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Asked when is the repatriation of the affected OFWs, Cacdac said they have yet to set the timeline, but emphasized it will be done as soon as possible, or this week since the Kuwaiti government works fast in repatriation process.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cacdac said all forms of assistance were provided by the government to the affected OFWs upon the directive of the President, including financial assistance from the DMW, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), Kuwaiti government and their employers.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) to repatriate three overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who perished in a fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6633,"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\/6632"}],"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=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6634,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions\/6634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}