YEAR OF NURSE AND MIDWIFE
- December 14, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
No Comments
Subject : International events
Concept :
- World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated the year 2020 as the “Year of the Nurse and midwife”, in honour of the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale.
- The declaration of “Year of the Nurse and midwife” will help to strengthen nursing and midwifery for Universal Health Coverage.
- Strengthening nursing will help to achieve Sustainable Development Goals, in particular the (SDG) 3 – ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages, SDG 5-promoting gender equity and SDG 8- contributing to economic development.
- Nurses and midwives constitute more than 50% of the health workforce in many countries.
- The declaration will also help to endorse “The NursingNow!” a three-year campaign (2018-2020) to improve health globally by raising the status of nursing.
- Moreover, WHO is also leading the development of the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report which will be launched in 2020.