The World Health Organisation has paid glowing tributes to Kerala's young nurse Lini Puthussery, who died of Nipah virus last month, after treating one of the patients.
Lini died on May 21 after being infected by a patient, whom she treated initially at the Perambra Taluk hospital, where she was a nurse.
In a tweet, WHO'S Health Workforce Director Jim Campbellsaid: "Remember them, lest we forget: Razan al-Najjar (Gaza); Lini Puthussery (India); Salome Karwah (Liberia). #WomeninGlobalHealth, #NotATarget.
A 28-year-old mother of two young boys, Lini died at the Kozhikode Medical college hospital days after being infected.
The young nurse in a poignant letter scribbled from her deathbed to her husband Sajeesh had said 'am almost on the way. I don't think I can meet you again...."
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