Pinoys in Riyadh want doctor to head OWWA

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino workers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, have started a campaign to make a pathologist the next head of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).

Online news site Arab News (www.arabnews.com) reported Wednesday that Filipinos in Riyadh want Dr. Muhammad Ali Carlito Astillero to fill the post vacated by now Labor Secretary Marianito Roque.

"Yes Madam President, it is high time that someone from among the OFW community leaders be appointed to the post of OWWA Administrator; one who understands by heart the every day problems faced by our overseas workers inside and outside their jobsites, and during and after the tenure of their work contracts; one who has been in the field, and has seen and attended to many OFW cases that were brought to his attention as a trusted community leader," said Francis Oca of the OFW Congress in a letter posted online.

The OFW Congress in Riyadh, an umbrella group of different Filipino groups in Saudi Arabia, is spearheading the petition to have Astillero appointed OWWA chief.

It launched an online petition for Astillero at www.petitiononline.com/OWWADMIN/petition.html. As of Wednesday morning, the site had 288 "signatures."

The group will meet on Friday to kick off their campaign worldwide and gather signatures from the officers of different community organizations.

Astillero, who hails from Western Mindanao, has worked over the past years as laboratory director at Al-Mishari Hospital I Riyadh for the past 21 years.He worked in Iran, Libya and Saudi Arabia for the last 32 years.

He had been an active community leader and fund campaigner for Filipino calamity victims in the Saudi capital. Among the organizations he headed is the Organization of the Knights of Rizal (OKOR) in the Middle East and Africa, of which he was a past “commander."

He received various awards, including the Special Presidential Award 1996 - Banaag at Sikat, the San Lorenzo Ruiz Award for Outstanding OFW (1994), the Bagong Bayani Award (1992), and the Most Outstanding Filipino in Saudi Arabia (1990). - GMANews.TV

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