INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY: Vasanthi Nair (L), head nurse of of New Civil Hospital, Surat, and Kalpana Patel of Vadodara’s SSG Hospital
SURAT/VADODARA/ AHMEDABAD: For the past three decades, this ‘Florence Nightingale’ of Surat has been a pillar of support to the caregivers of New Civil Hospital. But when it came to the battle with the pandemic, Vasanthi Nair, head nurse at NCH, showed her steely grit behind the starched uniform. Despite contacting Covid twice in the past one year, this 53-year-old returned to duty on Monday, two days before International Nurses Day.