Bhanumati Gheewala to get National Florence Nightingale Award 2021

The Florence Nightingale Award will be given to a nurse, Bhanumati Gheewala, from Sir Sayajirao General Hospital. She has been in charge of COVID-19 positive pregnant women’s deliveries as well as infant care. She worked in the gynaecology department as well in the paediatric ward.

She worked in the gynaecology department as well in the paediatric ward. In 2019, when the wards of the hospital were waterlogged due to flood. She carried her duty in the gynaecology department and the pediatric ward.

What is the Florence Nightingale Medal?

The Florence Nightingale Medal Commission is made up of several members and staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, including several nursing professionals, as well as the head nurse of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. A representative of the International Council of Nurses is also present at the Commission’s meetings. Until 1991, the medal was only awarded to female nurses due to regulatory restrictions. It is now open to both men and women, and it is given out every two years to a maximum of fifty people around the world.