UFS: 200 Pinoy seafarers need repatriation in Kuwait Posted by: Dennis on Oct 29, 2014 Around 200 Filipino seafarers are now practically “wandering” at high seas after their contracts with a Kuwaiti company expired. Their employer, Kuwait-based Arabian Gulf Mechanical Service and Contracting Co. (AGMS), is likewise preventing them to leave their ship for lack of suitable replacements. AGMS has an office contact address at P.O. Box 1348 Faxede Al Salem STR., 1304 Safat, Kuwait. In a letter to DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz dated October 28, United Filipino Seafarers (UFS) president Engr. Nelson P. Ramirez said the Pinoy seafarers need an immediate repatriation before things become worse. Ramirez said some of the Pinoy crew of m/v Mutoh are sickly and suffer from stress, anxiety and depression. Even the ship captain, Capt. Orencio M. Villa, is dealing with bouts of diabetes and has been having intense pain on his left hand for the last six months and, thus, needing immediate repatriation. “Capt. Orencio M. Villa of M/V Mutoh called me by phone to inform our government agencies of their present situation and to help them in their repatriation because their contract has already expired and he is sickly but their employer will not allow them to be repatriated because they do not have replacements,” Ramirez said in the letter to Baldoz. He said their manning agency in the Philippines Midsouth Ship and Crew Management has been suspended and dissolved and they do not have any communication with them. “His wife Mrs. Lerma C. Villa sent an e-mail to me recently that her husband suffers stress, anxiety, depression, diabetes and intense pain on the left hand for 6 months,” Ramirez said. The same letter was addressed to the Department of Affairs, POEA and OWWA. - See more at: unitedfilipinoseafarers.ph/ufs-200-pinoy-seafarers-need-repatriation-in-kuwait/#sthash.A2D0Bq1M.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 06:29:26 +0000
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