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International Nurses Day 2021: A day for health workers helping us in Covid

May 12 is the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.

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International Nurses Day is a day observed every year on May 12 to honour nurses. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) celebrated the day for the first time in 1965. In 1953, a US health, education and welfare department official, Dorothy Sunderland, proposed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower to proclaim a "Nurses' Day" which he did not approve.

In 1974, May 12 was chosen to celebrate the day as it is the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.

Who was Florence Nightingale?

Apart from being a nurse, Nightingale was a social reformer and a statistician. She came into prominence

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