The Marilyn Lahana Trust Caring Award is presented annually to recognise outstanding members of the nursing and midwifery professions who show a special quality of caring in relation to their patients and colleagues.
The award commemorates Marilyn Lahana, a
Johannesburg nurse who died in 1996 after
contracting the Ebola virus from a patient. A
number of people felt that Marilyn’s life and death were an example of the selfless spirit of nursing, a profession in which practitioners routinely put their patients’ interests before their own.
The Marilyn Lahana Trust was set up soon after Marilyn’s death in consultation with
her family and the award was instituted in 1998. The Democratic Nursing
Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) administers the award process each year.
Please note the following regarding the awards and nomination process for the year 2024.
Please note that The Marilyn Lahana Trust Caring Awards is now officialy opened.
1. The Nominations are opened till the 16th August 2024 at 16h00.
2. The nominees file which contains all the attachments (POE), is to be hand delivered at the Provincial office or be handed to the Regional Secretary in respective Regions who will then submit it to the office on your behalf.
3. The Marilyn Lahana brochure is available and can be obtained from Regional Secretaries.
4. Regional Secretaries details can be obtained from the Provincial office or alternatively contact the Provincial Organiser Cde Mxolisi Thwala on 0724564902.
We would like to wish all the nurses who will be taking part this year all the best.
Regards
DENOSA PROVINCIAL OFFICE
DENOSA Mpumalanga
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