A Filipina nurse in the United States, who is considered one of the heroes during the Hurricane Sandy disaster in 2012, is in need of a kidney donor.
Menchu Sanchez, who works at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, was one of the nurses who saved 20 at-risk infants by transferring them to the intensive care units during the hurricane, which took 147 lives.
Former US president Barack Obama even commended Sanchez for heroic act in his State of the Union address in 2013.
“We should follow the example of a New York City nurse named Menchu Sanchez. When Hurricane Sandy plunged her hospital into darkness, her thoughts were not with how her own home was faring – they were with the twenty precious newborns in her care and the rescue plan she devised that kept them all safe,” Obama said in his speech.
However, it is now the Filipina hero who is in great need of a savior.
Sanchez, 61, is still looking for a donor as both of her kidneys deteriorate. She has been in the waiting list for kidney donations, together with a hundred thousand of other patients, for three years now.
