Harinder Kaur, a nursing officer at GMSH, Sector 16, Chandigarh, being felicitated with the National Florence Nightingale Award 2021 by President Droupadi Murmu in New Delhi.
Nainital's BD Pandey Hospital nurse Shashikala Pandey and ANM Ganga Joshi of Khatima have been awarded the National Florence Nightingale Award 2021 by President Droupadi Murmu for "extraordinary devotion to nursing."
The award was conferred on as many as 51 nurses from across the country at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
The National Florence Nightingale Awards were instituted in the year 1973 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India as a mark of recognition for the meritorious services rendered by the nurses and nursing professionals to the society.