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23/06/23 07:06 AM IST

National Florence Nightingale Awards 2022 and 2023

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  • President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu conferred the National Florence Nightingale Awards for the year 2022 and 2023 to the nursing professionals at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
About Awards
  • Thirty nursing professionals were awarded the prestigious award for their dedication, duty and service to the community.
  • The National Florence Nightingale Awards were instituted in the year 1973 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as a mark of recognition for the meritorious services rendered by the nurses and nursing professionals to the society.
  • These are given in the honour of Florence Nightingale who is revered as the founder of modern nursing.
  • Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has highlighted the Abhiyaan and the Ni-kshay Mitra initiative.
  • India has set a target of eradicating TB by 2025.
  • Ni-kshay Mitra has taken charge of this movement against TB. Thousands of people are adopting TB patients in rural areas.
  • The special mission to eliminate SCA by 2047 was announced in the Union Budget 2023-24.
  • It will entail awareness creation, universal screening and counselling of 7 crore people in the age group of 0-40 years in affected tribal areas.
Source-  PIB

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