National Florence Nightingale Awards 2021:
President presented the award to the nursing profession.
- Florence Nightingale was a British Nurse, Statistician and social reformer, born in Florence, Taly (1820).
- Her effort during Crimean War (1854-56), by curing patients, calculating mortality data and showing how improvements made in sanitary methods would reduce the number of deaths, won her recognition.
- She is also known as the land with the lamp and the founder of modern nursing.
- National Florence Nightingale Awards was instituted in 1973 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to recognize meritorious service rendered by nursing professionals in India
- To mark the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale, WHO announced the year 2020 as the year of the Nurse and Mid-Wife.
