Prof RS Caroline : Working as
Deputy Director of Nursing in the
State of Andhra Pradesh, she is
involved in National Social Service
activities of NTR University of
Health Sciences, Vijaywada
(AnP). She brought many reforms
to nursing profession. She is a
member of the Board of Studies of various Universities.
She authored a book, “Sociology for
nurses”.
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Mrs Basumati Kalita : Working
as Nursing Sister in Guwahati
Medical College, Assam, she rendered
services through various
NGOs in Assam. Her selfless and
devoted services to patients have
been commended at various levels.
She has 18 years of experience in the management
of critically ill patients. Her remarkable
services include the dedicated and skillful
management of HIV-infected patients and special
care to the HIV-infected mothers and their
new born babies.
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Ms. Rachana Gupta : Principal
of Shreyas College of Nursing,
Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, she skillfully
managed a case of precipitated
labour in a home environment
and saved the life of the mother
and new born in 2004. Besides her
daily assignments, she is associated with many
social welfare organisations and provides health
care services to children regularly. She has been
instrumental in starting the Health Worker (Female),
General Nursing & Midwifery and M.Sc.
Nursing Programme in her Institution. She made
significant contributions for promoting breast
feeding and family planning for the past 14 years.
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Ms Daxaben Durllabhbhai
Ahir : Working as Staff Nurse in
Primary Health Centre at
Kachigam, Diu, she rendered efficient
services to help the victims
of Babri Masjid and Ram
Mandir riots at Surat in 1992. She worked tirelessly
to improve the sanitary conditions of PHC and implemented the guidelines for Bio-Medical
Waste Disposal. Her voluntary services to
the inmates of Navjeevan Old Age Home at
Daman and Manovikas School for Disabled at
Vapi are examples of her dedication. The
Manovikas School has honoured her for the contribution
to the old and disabled people.
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Mrs Gladyes Sanjay
Massey : Working as a Nursing
Sister in emergency department
in Dr Hedgewar Arogya
Sansthan, Delhi, she is well
known for her dedicated services
and skillful management
in Neurology Intensive Care
Unit, Burns, Causality and Tetanus Ward. She has
received appreciation for her hard work and skillful
management during disasters namely, fire at
petrol drum at Jagatpuri, DMRC pillar collapse
in Laxmi Nagar, LPG Cylinder Burst in Maruti
Van at Geeta Colony, and Dengue outbreak.
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Mrs Joanita Noronha: A Staff
Nurse working in Hospicio Hospital,
Margoa, Goa for the past 30
years. She has been appreciated
for her punctuality, readiness to
work, trustworthiness and excellent
soft skills. She is known for
good caring services to the patients
in the hospital.
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Mr K Iqbal Abdulrehman :
Working as Staff Nurse in Shri
Sayaji General Hospital,
Vadodara, Gujarat, he made
countless contributions during
incidents of Plague epidemic
(1994), Earthquake in Latur
(1997), Surat floods (1998), Orissa
cyclone (1998), Naphtha Tanker fire in Surat 1999,
building collapse 2008, Kutch earthquake 2001 and
Godhra carnage. He was instrumental in raising
funds through cultural functions to buy ambulances
and to help people in crisis and grief. He
has organised several camps for blood donation,
eye donation, wheelchair donation and treatment
camps for corrective surgery of 300 polio-disabled
persons.
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Mrs Ram Devi Mattoo :
Working
as Nursing Superintendent in
Indira Gandhi Hospital and Medical
College, Shimla, she saved the
lives of many and helped critically
ill patients to full recovery. The
recovery of a child with burn injury
on both legs with maggots to
normal, skillful management of a home delivery
without complication, helping the needy and
poor family for treatment are a few examples of
her dedication. She is a pillar of support in healthrelated
problems for the people and nurses working
in difficult hilly areas.
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Sister Sunitha Chirayath :
She is a Staff Nurse in the District
Hospital, Kannur, Kerala.
Through her association with
many charitable and non-charitable
societies she has served
many poor and helpless patients
in the hospital. She finds time to
pay visit to jail captives to help them come back
to normal life.
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Mrs Kalpana Deepak
Nagare: Working as Staff Nurse
in Rural Hospital, Raver, Jalgoan,
Maharashtra, she received immense
appreciation for her ‘best
operation assistance’ in various
Family Planning Camp services
from 2001 to 2008. Her performance
during communal riots in Raver (2008), flood relief
activities in 2006, Gastro Enteritis epidemic
(1998) and assisting in 1037 Family Planning surgeries
are praiseworthy. She was awarded Savitri
Bai Phule Samaj Sevika Puraskar by Maharashtra
Dalit Sahitya Academy in 2000 and Bharat Ratan
Baba Sahib Ambedkar Adarsh Adhikari
Karamchari Puraskar in 2000 by Maharashtra
State. She has received appreciations from President,
Municipal Council, Karamchari Kalyan
Mahasangh, Nagpur and other organisations for
her services to the community.
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Mrs Lhingneilam Kipgen:
She is working as
Staff Nurse at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of
Medical Sciences, Porompat, Imphal, Manipur.
Her passion towards care of HIV/AIDS people
took her to formulate a project titled “Continuum
of Care Programme” for HIV /AIDS cases in 1994, which was later
implemented by the Govt of
Manipur in partnership with
OXFAM (India) and World
Health Organisation (WHO).
Her fight against AIDS is still
continuing in far flung remote
hills, through activities of Sarva
Shiksha Abhiyan and Integrated Rural Management
Association, Nehru Yuva Kendra
Sanghatan, Fundamental Baptist Fellowship and
the New Life Crusaders.
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Mr Surendra Singh
Bankawat:
Staff Nurse in
Sawai Man Singh Hospital,
Jaipur, he came as an angel to
save life of his neighbour girl
Muskan, 9 years old, who after
electrocution became unconscious
and was declared dead by
Apex Hospital, Jaipur. When the family was grieving,
Surendra was assessing Muskan for signs of
life and immediately started cardio-pulmonary
resuscitation and arranged for oxygen administration.
As Muskan had hiccup, he immediately
got her shifted to ICU of SMS Hospital. He was
awarded State Merit Certificate by the Hon’ble
Governor of Rajasthan.
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Prof. M. Vijayalakshmi :
Working as Nursing Superintendent
at Sri Ramakrishna Hospital,
Sidhapudur, Coimbatore,
Tamil Nadu, she started Department
of continuing education
and improved the central sterile
department. Her contributions
in care of victims of serial bomb blasts in
February 1998 and Tsunami in December 2004 at
Coimbatore are highly appreciated. She provided
free food to patients of burns and operated cases
of cleft lip and cleft palate in the camps organized
by Rotary Club.
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Mrs Indra Wati :
She is presently
working as Lady Health
Visitor (LHV) at ESI Hospital,
Panipat. She is recipient of
many citations and awards for
her outstanding services in
implementing the family planning
and immunisation programmes in the year 2008 and 2009. Her initiative,
interest, motivation and commitment
in providing quality nursing services are highly
commendable.
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Mrs Mongjam Thaba Devi :
She made significant contribution
as a voluntary care provider
to children, old people and clients
suffering from sexually
transmitted infections. She
organised voluntarily a health
camp for Hepatitis-B vaccination
to 300 children from October 1998 to March 1999
and bore the expenditure. She is known for donating
books, food, clothes, cash and providing
various services regularly to destitutes, leprosy
home and old age home.
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Mrs Kesang Youden Bhutia:
Lady Health Visitor at Rangpo,
Sikkim having 33 years of experience,
she leaves no stone
unturned to achieve 100 percent
success in every health camp and
programme. In 1989, she was
awarded Gold Medal and Certificate
of merit in recognition for her selfless, dedicated
and untiring service to the people of her
village by National Immunisation Mission.
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Mrs Gauri Lama :
She is a well
known person for people of
Malda District in West Bengal.
Renovation of a sub-centre and
construction of another subcentre
by convincing and motivating
the concerned Gram
Panchyat Pradhan are the success
stories of her initiation and leadership qualities.
Her untiring services in flood-prone area
of Malda District have been greatly appreciated.
She is instrumental in motivating the mothers
for institutional deliveries.
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Mrs Manika Roy:
She is a sincere
and dedicated Lady Health
Visitor in Udaipur area of
Tripura state. She is best known
as a social worker. She has been
promptly reacting and caring for
patients suffering from communicable
diseases, accidents and disaster victims. She is an active member of Hepatitis
Foundation since 2003.
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Mrs Shanti Teresa Lakra:
She is an ANM posted at subcentre
in Dugong Creek, a remote
island in Little Andaman.
Being the only single medical
staff, she performed medical and
health care services to Ongee
Tribes. When Tsunami washed
almost all parts of this island she bravely performed
her duties staying with Ongees adjacent
to jungle in an open tent for more than two years.
She rendered all possible efforts to sustain life of
the people, supplies and medicines.
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Mrs Anasuyamma:
She
started her career in remote
rural areas as Junior Health Assistant
(Female), and has put in
21 years of service as an ANM in
Karnataka state. She has won
admiration of the general public
and the supervisory staff. She
is wonderful team mate, a dedicated social
worker, and always a front line worker in delivering
maternal and child health services.
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Mrs AP Subadra:
A Junior
Public Health Nurse, she is looking
after the tribal people at
Pakkom, Pulpally, Kerala where
many areas are inaccessible by
road. Her determination and
dedication to provide health
care and sanitation services to
the people, educational activities for school children
are appreciable. Her contribution in cervical
cancer project in association with Malabar
Cancer Care Society, Adolescent Health
Programme of Lions Club etc. has been widely
appreciated.
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Mrs Annapurna Tiwari:
A
dedicated ANM, she is actively
involved in providing health
care services to the people of
Indore at the age of 75 years. She
has made remarkable contribution
in habitat improvement
project of Overseas Development
Administration, Family Planning programme in association with local community
and NGOs. She was honoured by Authoress Club
for her dedicated services especially for Family
Welfare and Immunisation. Her message “Tilak
Holi” to save water for the community was well
publicised in media. She was felicited as “my
woman of Indore” by FM Radio in 2009.
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Mrs Binapani Sethy::
She is an
ANM, working at Kakarudrapur,
sub-centre Khordha, Orissa. She
spent five years in Nuapada an
interior remote difficult hilly
area. She was the first person to
notice and report the cases of fever
with joint pain in her village,
in 2001, which later turned out as an epidemic of
chikinguniya. She is appreciated for her soft
skills and enthusiasm to learn more. She was
honoured for her excellent achievements in the
Welfare Programmes of Mother & Child on International
Women’s Day-2008 by District Administration,
Khordha in Orissa.
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Mrs Nirmala Pandey:
She
is a sincere Auxiliary Nurse
Midwife working in
Uttarakhand. Her contribution
in implementation of National
Health Programme has
been appreciated by the community.
She is honoured for
her sincere, committed and and honest services.
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