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  • Letters
  • Sunday, 26 Jan 2003

TWO weeks after she arrived in Malaysia to work, a 23-year-old Indonesian maid was found to be afflicted with typhoid fever. It was further discovered that she had been ill before she even left Indonesia. 

And yet there are supposed to be medical checks on these would-be employees before they left home. What went wrong? 

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