Maid hospitalized

6 September 2010 05:35 pm

The Sri Lankan maid who was just last week released from hospital after undergoing an operation to remove nails and pins from her body, is back in hospital for a checkup, hospital sources said.

Sources at the Kamburupitiya hospital told Daily Mirror online that L.T Ariyawathi was admitted this evening after she was initially taken to the Matara hospital for a checkup.

In an incident which triggered a storm in Sri Lanka, Ariyawathi had claimed she was tortured by her employer in Saudi Arabia who had inserted 24 nails and pins in her body. She later underwent an operation in Sri Lanka to remove the nails.

The maid was later released from hospital to recover at home but was admitted again today even as Saudi Arabia continued to dispute her claims of being tortured. (Daily Mirror online)