2011-06-02 13:29:17

Sister Shobhana gets Florence Nightingale award


(June 02, 2011) The tireless effort of Sister Shobhana, who works with HIV/AIDS patients, has received national recognition. The nun, who belongs to Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, was honoured with the National Florence Nightingale award for her outstanding services in the health sector by President Pratibha Patil recently. “The award was unexpected. I dedicate this honour to my team,” a modest Sister Shobhana said. She is currently working at Sneha Sadan, a community centre for HIV/AIDS patients, in Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu. “We bring the patients diagnosed with HIV/AIDS to our centre and provide them with counselling and nutrition,” she said. The centre also takes care of the children infected with the disease. “Right now we have 50 such children staying with us.” Sister Shobhana, who completed her nursing and midwifery course from St. Martha’s Hospital, Bangalore in 1993, said that they also organize awareness programs on TB. After working for two years in the same hospital in which she studied, she served in a remote village dispensary in Salem district of the state. Becoming a household name in the country has not changed her much, she is her tireless self serving with renewed zeal the marginalised and the down trodden. Currently she is busy with a group of women, educating them about personal and environment hygiene, nutrition, ante- natal, intra-natal and post-natal care.








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