A Philippine domestic worker has been hospitalized in Saudi Arabia after her employer allegedly forced her to drink household bleach, Manila’s foreign ministry said on Monday. Domestic worker Agnes Mancilla underwent emergency abdominal surgery after she was taken, unconscious, to a hospital in Saudi’s southwestern Jizan city on April 2, the ministry said. In February, allegations of abuse of domestic workers caused a diplomatic flap between the Philippines and Kuwait. President Rodrigo Duterte decided to ban Filipinos from going to work in the Gulf state. Duterte said last week Kuwait had agreed to his demands to improve the working conditions of Filipinos, following negotiations between the two countries on a labor accord.