Florence Nightingale Award For Odisha’s MKCG Nurse, Who Spread Cheer Among COVID Patients

Berhampur: The Indian Nursing Council has recommended Shibani Das, a nurse working with MKCG Medical College and Hospital here, for the National Florence Nightingale Award 2021. She will soon be receiving the award from President Ramnath Kovind.

With this, she has become the first female nurse from MKCG to have been nominated for this award. Her name was picked among five nurses recommended by the hospital. The Health Department was informed about it last month. The institute received a letter from the department on Saturday for making arrangements to shoot a video of Shibani before the award ceremony, sources said.

A resident of Berhampur’s Lochapada, she joined the state-run medical college in 2007. Prior to this, she worked as a nurse in Kolkata. She has always served her patients with utmost dedication. Having made nursing a mission in her life, she exhibited enormous strength while serving COVID patients during the pandemic. She helped them to trim their beard and with the toiletries, which infused life into the otherwise gloomy atmosphere of the ward, and also won her praises.

This selfless service of her has finally got her recognition at the national level. “I will continue to serve my patients and wish that each one of them return healthy from the hospital,” she said.

A healthcare worker from Odisha, Premalata Barik, was among the 51 nurses conferred with the prestigious National Florence Nightingale Awards 2020, in September last year.

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