Year of celebrations for us, but now face toughest task of our lifetime, says apex nurses body

As various nurses unions across India were preparing to celebrate 2020 as the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife” declared by World Health Organisation (WHO), the 12 lakh nurse fraternity in the country had to abruptly encounter one of the worst medical crisis of history, the spread of pandemic COVID-19.

“We were busy chalking out programmes for this special year, to be celebrated in the honour of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birth anniversary, when we were suddenly alerted by the Health Ministry officials about this new virus entering into India,” said Dr Roy K. George, President of the Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI), founded in 1908 and having one of the largest membership of nurses in the world.

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