The Florence Nightingale Award will be conferred to a nurse, Bhanumati Gheewala, from Sir Sayajirao General Hospital, Gujarat. She has been in charge of COVID-19 fantastic pregnant womens deliveries as properly as baby care. She worked in the gynaecology branch as well in the paediatric ward. In 2019, when the wards of the medical institution were waterlogged due to flooding. She carried her obligation in the gynaecology branch and the pediatric ward.
About the Florence Nightingale Award:
The Florence Nightingale Award is given with the aid of the Indian Nursing Council. This is a statutory employer beneath the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, to comprehend the contributions of healthcare workers.
The delegates at the 8th International Conference of Red Cross Societies created this commemorative International Nightingale Medal. It was set up in London in 1907. This medal was intended to be awarded to those who have excelled in the career of nursing.
In 1912, the Red Cross committee created the award. It is to nurses or nursing workers. It is given for exceptional braveness and devotion to the wounded, sick, or disabled, or to civilian victims of a war or disaster or exemplary Services or a creative and pioneering spirit in the areas of public fitness or nursing Education.