International Nurses Day celebrations held in city
The Hindu
International Nurses Day awards presented to nursing professionals by Health Secretary Gagandeep Singh Bedi, honoring excellence and dedication.
To commemorate International Nurses Day, celebrated on May 12 annually, awards were presented to nursing professionals in various categories such as Best Nursing Personnel and Lifetime Achievement. Health Secretary Gagandeep Singh Bedi distributed the awards to 16 professionals. Suresh Sambandam, member, State Planning Commission Committee, and founder and CEO, Kissflow, Chennai, R. Ilango Maheswaran, president, Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council, and other senior officials of the Health Department participated. Earlier in the day, members representing several nursing associations called on Health Minister Ma. Subramanian.
It was supposed to be an 11-day adventurous trip for a group of trekkers from Bengaluru who had reached Uttarakhand on May 29. Everything was going as planned until June 3 when the trip took a disastrous turn after the 22-member group got caught in a blizzard on the Sahastra Tal trek. Only 13 of them returned alive.