ARAB'S INHUMANITY
Nails extracted from abused Lankan maid
Colombo: Doctors removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan woman who says the couple she worked for in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body.
L G Ariyawathi, who was hospitalized with severe pain after returning from Saudi Arabia, has said the family she worked punished her by heating the nails and needles before sticking them in her body, said Dr Keerti Satharsinghe of Kamburupitiya hospital, about 160 kilometers away from the capital, Colombo.
The nails ranged in length from one to 2.5 to 5 centimeters while the needles were about 2.5 centimeters. They were removed from her legs and forehead. "The surgery is successful and she is recovering now", said Dr Satharasinghe after a three-hour procedure.
He said six more needles which are in her both hands could not be removed as such an operation could harm her nerves and arteries but that they would not be harmful to her.
Since being admitted to hospital, Ariyawanthi has described the abuse meted out by her employers. "They (her employer and his family) did not allow me even to rest. The woman at the house heated the nails and the man inserted them into my body," the 49-year-old was quoted as saying in the ‘Lakbima’, a newspaper published in the local Sinhalese language.
L G Ariyawathi, who was hospitalized with severe pain after returning from Saudi Arabia, has said the family she worked punished her by heating the nails and needles before sticking them in her body, said Dr Keerti Satharsinghe of Kamburupitiya hospital, about 160 kilometers away from the capital, Colombo.
The nails ranged in length from one to 2.5 to 5 centimeters while the needles were about 2.5 centimeters. They were removed from her legs and forehead. "The surgery is successful and she is recovering now", said Dr Satharasinghe after a three-hour procedure.
He said six more needles which are in her both hands could not be removed as such an operation could harm her nerves and arteries but that they would not be harmful to her.
Since being admitted to hospital, Ariyawanthi has described the abuse meted out by her employers. "They (her employer and his family) did not allow me even to rest. The woman at the house heated the nails and the man inserted them into my body," the 49-year-old was quoted as saying in the ‘Lakbima’, a newspaper published in the local Sinhalese language.
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