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Online campaign for Filipina nurse who contracted Stevens-Johnson Syndrome ignites debate

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Online campaign for Filipina nurse who contracted Stevens-Johnson Syndrome ignites debate

Jocelyn Suarez, a Filipina nurse in Singapore, was attending to inmates of Changi prison when she contracted the potentially deadly skin disease, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), causing her to experience multiple organ failures.

Believed to have been suffering the symptoms since late last year, Suarez had to be put on 24-hour dialysis and hooked up to a respirator to aid her breathing. 

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