Florence Nightingale / புளோரன்ஸ் நைட்டிங்கேல்

Nightingale was born on May 12 1820 to a wealthy aristocratic family in Italy and grew up in England. As a teenager she believed that she had heard a call from God encouraging her to help the sick and poor and felt a strong desire to become a nurse—although the profession was not seen as a respectable job at the time.  Victorian social conventions also meant that women were generally expected to stay at home and run household affairs not pursue careers. Despite her family’s disapproval she educated herself in arts and science and eventually gained some nursing experience at a Lutheran-run institution for the poor in Germany. During the cremian war Nightingale herself spent every waking minute caring for the soldiers. In the evenings she moved through the dark hallways carrying a lamp while making her rounds ministering to patient after patient. The soldiers calling her “the Lady with the Lamp.” Others simply called her “the Angel of the Crimea.” Her work reduced the hospital’s death rate by two-thirds. Her efforts to reform healthcare greatly influenced the quality of care in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Nursing seemed the suitable route to serve both God and humankind. However despite having cared for sick relatives and tenants on the family estates her attempts to seek nurse’s training were thwarted by her family. Today’s COVID-19 practices of social distancing face cover with mask and hand washing practice hundred years ago she has put into practice