Bicentenary of the birth of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, was born 200 years ago. Her approach to caring for wounded soldiers and training nurses in the 19th century saved and improved countless lives. Today, as countries around the world struggle to find ways to battle the coronavirus pandemic, her ideas on health care and good hygiene resonate as strongly as ever.

Florence was born to a wealthy English family on May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy, and named after the city. She became famous as a result of her innovations in nursing care at Scutari hospital in modern-day Istanbul, where she treated British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War, in which British, French and Ottoman forces fought the Russian Empire.

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