By Vir B. Lumicao
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| Police have classified the case of the injured Filipina as "drunk person" |
A Filipina domestic helper who fell on the pavement of
Police said they received a 999 call around 5:27pm, reporting the incident about a non-ethnic Chinese woman accidentally injuring herself when she collapsed at the podium. The woman’s HKID number prefix showed she is a domestic worker, said a police spokeswoman.
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She said officers who responded to the call saw the woman
lying on the pavement with her head bleeding, but she was conscious. She said
an ambulance team took the victim to
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Police investigators initially classified the case as “person collapsed” but later reclassified it as “drunk person”. A video of the incident showed the conscious woman with a bandaged head being helped by the ambulance crew to a trolley and then wheeled away.
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The mishap happened next to two carabao statues on the podium near IFC One, a favorite hangout of Filipinas on their rest days.
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| The Filipina is wheeled out of the building on a stretcher |
Some comments on Facebook posts of the incident said the woman had been drinking with some friends hours earlier. One kibitzer was heard saying on the video that there were four of them drinking.
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Other accounts said the woman’s friends left early, leaving her alone resting on the marble bench. Then, as she got up in order to leave, she slipped and banged her head on the tiled flooring.
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Filipinas who commented on the posts advised their fellow workers to drink moderately and not to leave any of their drinking buddies behind when they are drunk.
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