Awards & Annual Day 2020

Manipal College of Nursing Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education inaugurated the international Year of Nurse and Midwife to commemorate the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale with a “Walkathon” on January 24, 2020 along with Kasturba Hospital Manipal and all the Nursing education institutions of Udupi district.

World Health Organization has marked 2020 as the international year of Nurse and Midwives as a recognition for the contributions made by nurses for contributing to the healthcare and for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

The nursing institutions which took part in the walkathon were; Manipal School of Nursing MAHE Manipal, Manipal College of Nursing MAHE Manipal, Lombard Memorial School of Nursing, Lombard Memorial College of Nursing, Mitra School of Nursing, Udupi College of Nursing, Udupi School of nursing, Vidya College of Nursing, Ashrith College of Nursing, Ashrith school of Nursing, Nightingale school of nursing, Canara College of Nursing, New City School of Nursing, New City College of Nursing, Udupi Dhanvantari School of Nursing, Dhanvantari College of Nursing, Vidyaratna School of Nursing and Vidyaratna College of Nursing. The large number of nurses from Kasturba hospital Manipal also participated in the walkathon.