Daily Current Affairs / Bhanumati Gheewala to receive National Florence Nightingale Award 2021
Category : Awards Published on: September 16 2021
· The Florence Nightingale Award will be given to Bhanumati Gheewala, a nurse at Sir Sayajirao General Hospital, Gujarat.
· She has been in charge of child care along with delivery of COVID-19 positive pregnant women.
· She worked in the gynecology department as well as the pediatric ward when the hospital wards were flooded in 2019 due to floods.
· She performed her duty in the Gynecology Department and Pediatric Ward.
Important facts
About the Florence Nightingale Prize
v At the Eighth International Conference of Red Cross Societies in London in 1907, the assembled delegates decided to create a commemorative International Nightingale Medal to honor eminent personalities in the nursing field.
v First Prize: 1920
v Founded: 1912
v Submitted by: Heads of State or Red Cross National Committees
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