World Health Organisation (WHO) celebrates World Health Day on April 7 every year. World Health Day is celebrated to spread awareness about the importance of health. This World Health Day, WHO is honouring the contribution which nurses and midwives are making in making the world a healthier place. 2020 is the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, and WHO wants to highlight the significant roles which these two play in making the world a better place.
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WHO chose the year 2020 as the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife” to honour the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale. It is imperative to strengthen the workforce of nurses and midwives so that globally, targets such as universal health coverage, maternal and child health, mental health, delivery of people-centred care and infectious and non-communicable diseases are taken care of.
