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DENOSA to host Marilyn Lahana Caring Award to the most selfless nurse in SA on 24 November in Pretoria
MEDIA INVITATION
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) cordially invites members of the media to its annual national Marilyn Lahana Caring Awards ceremony on Thursday 24 November 2016 at the CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, which will award the most dedicated and selfless nurse in SA.
Now in its 20th year, the Marilyn Lahana Caring Awards is an annual event hosted by DENOSA in collaboration with the Marilyn Lahana Caring Trust, which awards a nurse who has shown the most dedication and selflessness while performing her work. The nurse is voted for by fellow nurses, community members as well as current and former patients.
Preliminaries are held in provinces where overall provincial winners go on to compete in the national finals. Nine nurses from the provinces will be vying for the coveted award.
The award is named after Marilyn Lahana, a nurse who died of Ebola in 1995 at a Johannesburg hospital. A patient infected with Ebola was transported from Gabon to a Johannesburg Hospital where Marilyn Lahana was working. In an act of sheer selflessness, she risked her own life cared for the patient comprehensively. Unfortunately, she got infected with the virus and died a little later on 24 November 1995.
The event will be a special 20th event and also marking 21 years since the death of Marilyn Lahana.
Nurses work under extremely difficult and challenging conditions, mainly as a result of severe shortage. These conditions often bring them to clash with community members as a result of boiling tensions over long queues.
“These awards are a way to say to those nurses that give their all under these trying conditions: Keep up the good work; the society is watching you and appreciative of your dedication and selflessness. But these awards should not in any way mean that as DENOSA we condone the poor conditions that nurses are subjected to in the workplace where there is no equipment, medication and basic tools of work,” says DENOSA Projects Coordinator, Kedibone Mdolo.
Members of the media are invited to attend the event and report.
Details of the event are as follows:
DATE: Thursday 24 November 2016
VENUE: CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria
TIME: 18h00 – 20h30
MEDIA RSVP CONTACT: Sibongiseni Delihlazo, DENOSA Communications Manager. 079 875 2663
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Issued by the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA)
For more information, contact:
Sibongiseni Delihlazo, DENOSA Communications Manager
Mobile: 079 875 2663
Tel: 012 343 2315
Email: sibongisenid@denosa.org.za
Website: www.denosa.org.za
Facebook: DENOSA National Page
Twitter: @DENOSAORG
