China Nightingale Volunteer Nursing Service Corps grew to 809 detachments accounting for more than 70% of the activity

On October 15, 110 detachments of China Nightingale Volunteer Nursing Service Corps in Jiangxi Province were established. Photo by Wu Pengquan

Nanchang, October 15 (Reporter Wu Pengquan) Zhang Liyan, chairman of the China Nightingale Volunteer Nursing Service Corps, said in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, on the 15th that The China Nightingale Volunteer Nursing Service Corps has grown from 1 detachment to 809, and the active detachment accounts for more than 70%.

On the same day, the Jiangxi Nightingale Volunteer Service Seminar training class and the inaugural meeting of the 110 detachments of the Jiangxi Provincial Nightingale Volunteer Nursing Service Corps in China were held here, and Zhang Liyan made the above statement in his speech at the event.

The China Nightingale Volunteer Nursing Service Corps is the only nursing volunteer service organization in China approved and named by the Red Cross Society of China and established in Beijing in July 2007.

Zhang Liyan said that after 14 years of development, China Nightingale Volunteer Nursing Service Corps has developed from 1 detachment to 809, and the service has been successfully transformed from life care to nursing professions, and then comprehensively promoted the in-depth service of specialties, "This is a process full of difficulties and challenges, but also a process full of hope and achievements." ”

She also said that through the hard work of the three councils and the obscure efforts of hundreds of thousands of volunteers across the country, the proportion of active detachments has now exceeded 70%, and the amount of activities has increased several times. In the first eight months of 2021, the total number of activities nationwide was as high as 11,896.

Zhang Liyan believes that the heat generated by this heat directly benefits people from all walks of life in China. Especially since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, volunteers across the country have provided uninterrupted services to help patients at home solve many health problems, so that the people's inconvenient life of medical treatment still has health security, which is welcomed and trusted by the people, and has caused a wide impact in society.

Florence Nightingale is a British nurse who has devoted her life to nursing and is the founder of the modern nursing discipline. In honor of Nightingale, the International Nurses Association celebrated her birthday, May 12, 1912 as International Nurses Day. (End)

Source: China News Network