{"id":102215,"date":"2020-05-12T15:32:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T22:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102215"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:32:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T22:32:59","slug":"international-nurses-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/12\/international-nurses-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Nurses Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Aloysius Hettiarachchi<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Today\nis International Nurses Day. We are deeply indebted to them for the services\nthey provide. They are the frontline soldiers in the battle against Covid-19 in\nour country right at this moment. Perhaps one of them saved my life too, on a\nday in 1975 at the general hospital, Colombo. I got myself admitted one evening\nto the hospital for a cystoscopic examination of the bladder on the following\nmorning. I was told not to drink anything until after the medical procedure.\nFollowing morning I was feeling very thirsty and drank water. The nurse who\nhappened to be there and saw it said that she will tell the doctor not to do\nthe operation on me as I would vomit and die on the table. So, I was not taken\nin and was sent home; she did her duty and may have saved me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\nI see on the TV the nurses display their hero\u2019s statue, that of Florence Nightingale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nthe UK they teach their children from the very young age to consider her as a\nnational hero. I give below a link to a narrative by my grand daughter about a\nstory of a nurse they were taught in the school. A week after this was recorded\nshe was taken to an exhibition by her parents where the portrait of Nightingale\nwas on display. She had immediately run up to the portrait and was seen\ntouching it affectionately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MOV05317\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VjVV9hzvzc8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aloysius Hettiarachchi Today is International Nurses Day. We are deeply indebted to them for the services they provide. They are the frontline soldiers in the battle against Covid-19 in our country right at this moment. Perhaps one of them saved my life too, on a day in 1975 at the general hospital, Colombo. I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}