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Menchu de Luna Sanchez, a Filipina nurse working at the NYU Langone Medical Center, is part of a select group of 23 “extraordinary Americans who exemplify the themes and ideals laid out in the State of the Union Address,” the White House said in an update of its official blog. She was among those who sat beside US First Lady Michelle Obama during the State of the Union Address on February 13, Wednesday (Philippine time). A registered nurse, Sanchez devised a plan to transport 20 at-risk infants to intensive care units around the city when Hurricane Sandy cut power at the hospital, the White House said. She directed the staff to carry the infants 8 flights of stairs with cell phones lighting the way. Migrating to the US in the 1980s, she has been working as a nurse in New York for over 25 years.
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