‘This is my chance to thank New York,’ says an immigrant working in a coronavirus hospital ‘red zone’ via hunterw
For the past five years, Gina Rejas, an immigrant from Peru, has worked as a housekeeper at White Plains Hospital in Westchester County, N.Y., one of the places that has been hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Rejas’s unit is a “red zone” dedicated solely to patients infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Rejas is my mother-in-law, and after I shared her words on Twitter, the post ended up earning over 160,000 likes. I called her up to hear more about her experience as an immigrant fighting the battle against the coronavirus. Rejas admitted that she is afraid of catching the highly contagious disease that has killed thousands but said she sees her work as part of a “moral obligation” to her adopted home.
“The work is hard, but actually what makes it more bearable is that the nurses inspire me. The work that they do is hard, but you never see them tired, you don’t see them exhausted. I don’t know where they get so much energy,” Rejas said. “They make you day in and day out keep up with their pace. So this is what makes us a small but mighty team. We work together.”
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