Lebanon Evacuation

TWENTY Filipinas from Lebanon arrived in Manila Sunday as the evacuation of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from the war-torn Middle East country continued, GMA Network’s station dzBB reported.

The workers arrived on a Gulf Air flight and were sponsored by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.

One of the repatriated workers, Aniceta Sumalinog of Cebu, was suffering from post-traumatic stress because of the fighting between Israeli and Hezbollah forces ended by a UN-brokered ceasefire last month, the report said.

The radio station doctors at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport as saying Sumalinog also suffered from “selective amnesia.”

Sumalinog told the station she had spent three weeks in a Lebanese clinic where she was observed but could not remember how she got there except that she was escorted by a nun.

She was taken to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration office in Pasay City for psychiatric evaluation to determine whether she will need hospitalization or can be sent straight home, the report added.

The station also said the IOM would continue to sponsor repatriation flights for OFWs in Lebanon but could not give a definite schedule of the return trips.