WHO declared 2020 as Year of the Nurse and Midwife

The World Health Organisation has designated the year 2020 as the "Year of the Nurse and midwife", in honour of the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale.
This will help to strengthen nursing and midwifery for Universal Health Coverage to achieve Sustainable Development Goals, in particular the (SDG) 3 - ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages, SDG 5-promoting gender equity and SDG 8- contributing to economic development.
WHO is also leading the development of the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report which will be launched in 2020.
Florence Nightingale was a British nurse, statistician, and social reformer who is also considered as a foundational philosopher of modern nursing.
She was known for her night rounds to aid the wounded, establishing her image as the 'Lady with the Lamp'.