More than 250,000 immigrants and refugees in the U.S. have health care degrees but don't have jobs commensurate with their education.
Sheeba Shafaq carries the memory with her everywhere. She was 13 when she witnessed her aunt die from bleeding out while giving birth. No one in the village was able to help her. Shafaq vowed that day to spare other Afghan mothers the same fate and, after she completed medical school, she began to work for a local obstetrics and gynecology office.
And now, many of the nearly 3 million foreign-born professionals in the American health care and social services industries are currently on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. “We can take a lot — a lot of stress and a lot of work and we don’t complain. Maybe it’s in our system. We have been built to just cope and get through,” said Shafaq.Sheeba Shafaq, a former doctor in Afghanistan, who now works as a medical assistant at a Sacramento clinic.
“People completely forget the skills, the talents, the energy and the diversity that refugees bring to America,” said Hans Van de Weerd, the senior director of resettlement, asylum and integration at IRC.
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