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Legacy of world's first nurse still resounds on 200th anniversary

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Published : May 18, 2020, 7:40 PM IST

Florence Nightingale was responsible for improving hygiene to control the spread of infections, but her bicentenary comes amid the biggest global healthcare crisis in generations. Before her, modern nursing did not exist. But her work treating the British military during the Crimean War in what is now Istanbul changed all that.

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