𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗢𝗦𝗔 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆’𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗮𝘁 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗮 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.

𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧.

𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟴 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰.

PRETORIA – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) will announce and award the country’s Most Caring Nurse in 2024 with the Marilyn Lahana Caring Award at the Awards Gala Dinner on Thursday night (19 December 2024) at the Sheraton Hotel in Pretoria.

The event will see provincial winners of the Marilyn Lahana Caring National Award competing at the national finals, and will start at 18h30 for 19h00.

Members of the media are cordially invited to attend the event. 

The awards are named after Marilyn Lahana, a Johannesburg nurse, who contracted Ebola virus while caring for a patient and died shortly after in 1996, in what represented the true colours of the nursing profession: selflessness, commitment and total dedication to patient care in line with the nurses’ pledge of service.

Soon after her death, the Marilyn Lahana family instituted from her trust, and collaborated with DENOSA to administer the awards.

Every year, nurses nominate their fellow nursing colleague who has shown outstanding selflessness and total dedication to patient in the course of their work.

As a National Nursing Association (NNA), DENOSA has set up the adjudication committee, which sifts through the nominations to determine the winner.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀:

𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: Thursday, 19 December 2024. 

𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘: 18h30 for 19h00.

𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗨𝗘: Sheraton Hotel, Pretoria (corner Stanza Bopape and Wessels streets).

𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗧 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡: Kedibone Mdolo, DENOSA Projects Coordinator. 

𝗠𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗘: 072 585 6847.

The announcement and awarding of the country’s Most Caring Nurse for the year will take just two weeks after the country registered a further commendable achievement in the management of the country’s HIV/AIDS burden against the UNAIDS’ 95-95-95 targets for 2025. 

South Africa scored 95-79-93, which is largely thanks to nurses who are at the forefront of the management programme as they diagnose amd prescribe ARVs for patients, which has resulted in the country’s antiretroviral therapy programme being the biggest in the world.

As a result of this, and because people are now living longer, the rise in the country’s average life expectancy amongst South Africans can be easily traced to the excellent work of the nurses.

End.

𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗢𝗦𝗔.