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Employers paid $30k for her cancer treatment
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Ms Helen Agpato (centre) with Mrs Jenny Lee, Mr Roland Lee and their sons Cornelius (standing), 22, and Jordan, 27. The 61-year-old maid has worked for the Lee family for 24 years.
PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES
Rachel Au-Yong
When Ms Helen Agpato was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2011, her employers not only paid the $30,000 medical bill, but waited on her for almost a year until she recovered.
"Out of about 100 domestic helpers I know here, I can say only about 10 or 20 have employers as good as mine," said Ms Agpato, who is from Mindanao in the Philippines.
