During the Crimean War (1853-1856), thousands of British Soldiers were dying. The British Govt. sent Florence Nightingale, a nurse with a team of 50 other nurses and nuns to care for the wounded soldiers. They worked day and night and still, soldiers were dying. Nightingale noted that many of the soldiers were dying not from battle wounds but from diseases like typhus, typhoid, cholera, and dysentery. So along with compassionate care, she also started giving importance to hygiene at the hospitals and kept a clear communication line between the battleground and the empire. She made the British Govt. make a camp hospital at the war sites and asked the govt to improve sanitation, so they did. Sending a team just for sanitation. While in the first 3 months, 4000+ soldiers died, the deaths reduced significantly after the sanitation efforts. Although the world of microorganisms such as bacteria and “small animals” was already imagined and worked upon in the 17th century by Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, People still have not adopted the practice of hygiene to keep themselves healthy. People like Nightingale made hygiene commonplace at the care sites like hospitals and nursing homes. This practice saved countless lives. She is called the Founder of Modern Nursing. (Many hospitals and nursing homes are named after her, apart from multiple awards.) In the healthcare visionary series, we are remembering the greatest contributions made by people in healthcare. Check out NirogGyan's work in healthcare at www.niroggyan.com We are a health-tech company, we turn bland diagnostics reports into simplified smart reports. #PatientEngagement #Diagnostics #SmartReports #Nightingale
