By: Melanie Aanyu

The Senior Presidential Advisor on Diaspora Affairs, Amb. Abbey Walusimbi has explained circumstances under which a female Uganda migrant worker was admitted to a hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Joan Agnes Kyotalimye was taken to Saudi Arabia in September but according to  voice recording making rounds on social media, she says she was forcefully taken and admitted to a hospital after being suspected of having TB.

She has since asked for the Ugandan government’s intervention.

However, in a statement released  on Wednesday, Amb. Walusimbi noted that following the concern of the Ugandan migrant worker, his office contacted Kyotalimye’s  employers , medical officials at the Dammam Medical complex where she is admitted, the local recruitment company Alasker, the Embassy of Uganda in Saudi Arabia, and Ministry of Ministry of Gender to ascertain facts regarding the matter.

He explained that his team reached out to the Ugandan migrant worker’s employer who said that the initial tests done at First Health Cluster indicated she had  Pulmonary TB and that he had been advised to check her into a medical facility for isolation and better management of the disease.

He noted that the Ugandan migrant worker’s distraught is a result of the ignorance of some people that the she contacted who he  said had  misguided her to record the audio that is circulating.

The development comes on the backdrop of cases of removing of organs from a number of migrant workers in the Middle East which has prompted Ugandans to be on alert.The Senior Presidential Advisor on Diaspora Affairs, Amb. Abbey Walusimbi has explained circumstances under which a female Uganda migrant worker was admitted to a hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Joan Agnes Kyotalimye was taken to Saudi Arabia in September but according to  voice recording making rounds on social media, she says she was forcefully taken and admitted to a hospital after being suspected of having TB.

She has since asked for the Ugandan government’s intervention.

However, in a statement released  on Wednesday, Amb. Walusimbi noted that following the concern of the Ugandan migrant worker, his office contacted Kyotalimye’s  employers , medical officials at the Dammam Medical complex where she is admitted, the local recruitment company Alasker, the Embassy of Uganda in Saudi Arabia, and Ministry of Ministry of Gender to ascertain facts regarding the matter.

He explained that his team reached out to the Ugandan migrant worker’s employer who said that the initial tests done at First Health Cluster indicated she had  Pulmonary TB and that he had been advised to check her into a medical facility for isolation and better management of the disease.

He noted that the Ugandan migrant worker’s distraught is a result of the ignorance of some people that the she contacted who he  said had  misguided her to record the audio that is circulating.

The development comes on the backdrop of cases of removing of organs from a number of migrant workers in the Middle East which has prompted Ugandans to be on alert.