An Indian woman in the United Arab Emirates seeks help from the Indian government to get the body of her husband released from the hospital where he died of an illness on January 18 this year.

Marilyn Stanislaus told to news over the phone on Thursday (26 January) that her husband Marilyn Domnic was laid off as an oil field supervisor in a Dubai company in February 2015 and fell ill on December 26, 2016.

Dominic was rushed to the nearby hospital, where he underwent treatment but could not survive. Since then, Marilyn had been struggling to pay the 30,000 Dirhams (nearly 5.55 lakh) which she owes to the hospital.

She described the situation as “it was the worst moment in two decades of living in the UAE”. After loosing his job Dominic had gone under depression, she said.

The visas of her children Amparo, Andrea and Angelina have expired and they are desperate to release Dominic’s body and return home.

Stanislaus has appealed to the Union government to help them out from the moment of grief, and he had been seeking help from various charities, friends and relatives.

Hailing the efforts of the hospital, which admitted and treated Dominic without the mandatory Emirates ID, she said, "Dominic could not renew his visa after he lost his job. He attended many interviews, but could not get a job due to the slowdown."

Stanislaus had not been able to pay the school fees for her daughters, two of whom are studying in Class 6. "But her immediate concern is to get the Dominic's body released from the hospital."

V M Sathish, a Dubai-based journalist, said he had been trying to get the family to send a letter seeking financial support to one of the three charities attached to the hospital, the usual practice in the UAE.

AMandeep