BHUBANESWAR: Udasi Sahoo, a female health worker of the Childa community health centre of the tribal-dominated Patna block under Keonjhar district, has brought laurels to the State by being selected for the prestigious National Florence Nightingale Nurses Award 2012.The highest recognition for nursing services and profession in the country would be conferred on her by the President of India on May 12 at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhawan. The award consists of Rs 50,000 in cash, a certificate and a medal. The Centre has decided to give this award on May 12 to mark the International Nurses Day and birthday of Florence Nightingale.Trained in skilled birth attendant, IMNCI and NSSK, adopted by NRHM Odisha in order to improve Maternal and Child Health through trained attendants, Udasi has rendered exemplary services to a population that mostly comprised the tribal backward sections.She has been instrumental in facilitating a whopping 309 institutional deliveries in the last one year and was also able to identify 34 high risk pregnancies. She herself managed 32 pregnancies in her area due to paucity of time and at least 10 newborn lives were saved by her intervention. She could provide proper counselling for ANC check-ups and referrals in time. She was involved in promoting and monitoring need based health and nutrition issue in the villages and ensured timely follow up of each case to help pregnant women.Health and Family Welfare Minister Prasanna Acharya has congratulated her stating she is a role model for others of her ilk. Her dedication, sincerity and hard work should be an example for others to follow, he said.
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