Nurses exhorted to follow path shown by Florence Nightingale

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, May 12

An event to mark International Nurses Day was organised at Sri Guru Ram Das College of Nursing under the SGRD Institute of Medical Sciences and Research here on Tuesday.

The day celebrates the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing and an embodiment of compassion and love. “This year, as the world is fighting Covid-19 pandemic, it becomes even more pertinent for the nursing fraternity to fulfil its duties with missionary zeal,” said Dr AP Singh, Dean, SGRD University.

The nursing faculty and practitioners observed a two-minute silence for patients and health workers who have died due to Covid-19 infection. They also prayed for the health of the ailing.

Principal, SGRD Nursing College, Dr Parvesh Saini said: “The present health crisis is the moment for nursing fraternity to tread on the path set forth by Florence Nightingale, who is still remembered as the Lady with the Lamp for showing the path of compassion not only to health professionals, but to the entire world.”

The college distributed fruits among patients and organised a special prayer for the well-being of humanity by lighting lamps. The nursing faculty and practitioners attended the ceremony.

Meanwhile, in a separate event organised by the Punjab Nursing Association at Government Medical College here, nurses deputed at Covid care centre were honoured. Association president Narinder Buttar said the world was celebrating the 200 birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale this year. She said: “Nurses are primary care givers in the modern medicine and ever since Covid-19 has started, they are performing their duties with devotion.” She also stressed at the need for regularising the services of all contractual nursing staff to improve the state of health services.