The exclusive story reported that a Bangladeshi worker, died in a dormitory which housed about 700 other workers at Tagore Industrial Avenue.
Mohamad Kamaluddin, 28,contracted with chicken pox and was not given proper medical care by his employer Gates Offshore, a ship repair and dormitory services company, while the rest of the workers were not quarantined even the disease was contagious.
The news report also revealed that though the worker died in December 2008, but the Ministry of Manpower was only informed about the incident in June 2009.
The story was later picked up by other papers such as Today and Straight Times.
Full story on the death case
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/07/toc-exclusive-death-of-bangladeshi-worker-in-2008/
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