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President Hu presents Nightingale medals
Updated: 2007-07-17 17:06
Chinese President Hu Jintao (third from left), who is also the Honorary
Director of the Red Cross Society of China, poses with five Chinese
nurses who won this year's Florence Nightingale Medal for a group photo
after presenting the medals to them in Beijing, July 17, 2007. The
Florence Nightingale Medal is the Red Cross Movement's highest
international distinction award for the nursing profession.[Xinhua]
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday conferred the Florence Nightingale
medal on five Chinese nurses for their outstanding contributions to
healthcare.
The nurses included Cering Namo, a Tibetan caring of lepers at a hospital
in southwest China's Qinghai Province, Chen Haihua, who works at a
Beijing hospital and was once awarded the UN peace medal, Ding Shuzhen,
who kept working after being diagnosed with cancer, Nie Shujuan, who has
been fighting hepatitis in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous
Region, and Luo Shaoxia from a Macao hospital.
Vice Premier Wu Yi expressed the hope that nurses around the country
would learn from the five recipients and carry forward the Florence
Ningtingale spirit.
She also encouraged the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) to play a
bigger role in assisting the government and raising public awareness of
the work of nurses.
RCSC president Peng Peiyun hoped all Chinese nurses and Red Cross workers
would improve their professional standards and service.
Florence Nightingale, a British nurse during the Crimean War from 1854 to
1856, was regarded as the pioneer of the modern nursing.
The Nightingale Award was established by the International Committee of
the Red Cross in 1912 and is presented every two years. The Chinese Red
Cross Society began to recommend candidates for the award in 1983.
Hu Jintao is the Honorary President of the RCSC.
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