Residents Rally Frontline Health Care Workers At Palos Hospital

PALOS HEIGHTS, IL — Residents rallied frontline health care workers caring for coronavirus patients at Palos Hospital in Palos Heights. A caravan of cars and minivans, many with young children waving signs and wearing face masks, convoyed to the employee parking tower from the Metra lot.

Health care workers in scrubs were applauded and cheered as they entered or exited the hospital during the shift change. The rally was organized by Laim Dota, whose daughter, Laila, is a nurse on the seventh floor where the hospital’s coronavirus patients are being treated.

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Dota wanted someone to take pictures of her daughter who walked into the building bare-armed on a chilly evening. Dota said her daughter hasn’t seen her children in weeks.

“I want them to be proud of their mother,” she said.

There are so many people being treated for coronavirus at the hospital that the sixth floor is being opened as a treatment area to isolate and treat patients with the virus, Dota said.

Later Dota and thers would arrive with 30 meals for the second “covid” shift.

Watch the frontline medical workers’ arrival at Palos Hospital.

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