PMI From East Java Koma In Singapore, BP3MI Facilitates Return

PMI from East Java Musripah (42) was sent back to Indonesia after experiencing a coma in Singapore, Monday (2/12/2024). (ANTARA/Laily Rahmawaty)

The Riau Islands Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Service Center (BP3MI) facilitates the pick-up and maintenance as well as the repatriation of an Indonesian Migrant Worker (PMI) who is in a coma in Singapore.

PMI from East Java (East Java) named Musripah aged 42 years was returned to Indonesia from Singapore using the MV Waterfront 1 ship through the Intnational Ferry Batam Center Port, Batam City, Monday 2 December.

"So we received information from friends from the Indonesian Consulate General in Singapore that there was a repatriation of PMI whose condition was in a coma," said Head of BP3MI Ripri Imam Riyadi at Batam Center Port, confiscated by Antara.

According to him, the Riau Islands BP3MI is still coordinating with the Indonesian Consulate General in Singapore regarding the causes of the coma experienced by PMI. Including matching medical data from Singapore with medical information on the results of examinations in Indonesia. Because on several Musripah bodies, such as on the neck and face there are scars, such as dark scars.

"Because later we will ask for information from the Indonesian Consulate General's friends who are there," he said.

Musripah arrived at Batam Center Port at around 12.40 WIB, taken by ambulance to Awal Bros Batam Hospital.

Imam said the treatment for PMI was carried out while waiting for the family to come to pick him up to take him home. "BPM3MI facilitates treatment to return to the area as long as there is a brafax (fasili news) from the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore," he said.

He said the coma PMI was not registered with SISKOP2MI, so he did not know the entry process to Singapore whether the workers were legal or non-procedural.

"Regarding Indonesian citizens, the process is not going through a process in us, meaning that it is not recorded in our SISKOP2MI," he said.

Although not recorded, he said, BP3MI still provides services ranging from picking up at the port to the hospital and returning to their hometowns.

"We facilitated treatment at the hospital until his family arrived," said Imam.

He also explained that the reason PMI from East Java was that it was brought directly to Batam not to its area of origin because there was no official statement from Singapore.

"Why is the person concerned not immediately sent back to his area of origin because from Singapore itself there is no official statement, which later can send medical information accompanying him on his PMI trip to his area of origin so that he is sent back to the Batam area," said Imam.

When met at the port, Musripah's condition at the time of repatriation was seen just lying down without being able to move her legs and hands, while her eyes were still able to blink. Her left foot was attached to a warker ankle.

From the patient bracelet worn on Musripah's right hand, it was recorded November 3, 2024.

Based on the Indonesian Consulate General in Singapore, Musripah's condition was discovered after information entered through the Indonesian Embassy hotline on November 17, 2024. The information came from the family who conveyed the condition of Musripah in a coma at a Singapore hospital.

The search results obtained information that Musripah had only worked with her employer, a Singaporean citizen for six months. She was recruited from one of the agents, who turned out to be the agent not her original agent (direct hiring).

The Indonesian Embassy in Singapore visited Musripah on November 19 still using a breathing apparatus. Then on November 24, he was again visited and his condition was stable but could not respond, and was able to breathe without a tool. On November 25, he was transferred from the ICU to his usual treatment room.

The transfer of treatment for Musripah, because since being treated on 3-25 November 2024 the cost of treatment has reached 100 thousand Singapore dollars, exceeding the insurance stamp which is only 60 thousand Singapore dollars, and the rest is the responsibility of the employer.

PMI Musripah was diagnosed with vasospasme (blood vessel convulsions) and is undergoing intra-arterial nimodipines to treat vaospasme, as well as an acute lung edema that is most likely secondary due to cardiomyopathy takotsubo (cardiac disease).

The Indonesian Embassy has conveyed Musripah's condition to the family and so that the family immediately informs PMI's health insurance as a referral to hospitals in Indonesia.