Manuela García presented the Florence Nightingale Award for a lifetime of dedication to Nursing

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Nurses’ Day

García reiterated the Government’s commitment to the nursing profession

The Regional Minister of Health, Manuela García, today attended the main ceremony celebrating Nurses’ Day in the Sala Magna of the School of Hotel Management at the University of the Balearic Islands. García highlighted the “professionalism, solvency, experience and future of the group” as well as “the incalculable value of nurses as professionals, your vital role in the health system”.

Manuela García presented the Florence Nightingale Award for a lifetime dedicated to nursing to the retired midwife Aurora García Viera.

On the other hand, she thanked the nurses who today received the silver badges for 25 years of collegiate membership, as well as those who are retiring: “I am sure that, from their different destinations, with much less means than us and with more difficulty, they helped so many people with their care, their knowledge and their humanity in delicate and very vulnerable moments of life. Thank you for a lifetime of work. I wish you all the best for this new stage you are starting”.

García also wished to recognise the nursing profession, which is key and essential for “maintaining and improving the health system”.

Finally, the Regional Minister of Health acknowledged the great value of the nursing profession in the development of the Chronicity Strategy, of nurse case managers and of the great work in achieving greater humanisation in the health service.

García reiterated the Government’s commitment to the profession. There are 6,108 nurses in the Balearic Islands.