NIGH Nightingale Initiative for Global Health Declaration Campaign -- creating a healthy world together

A new book by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown salutes those who have inspired him. In the publication Courage: Eight Portraits, he tells the extraordinary story of Edith Cavell, the British nurse, who faced a German firing squad for saving hundreds of First World War soldiers.
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Mahatma Gandhi on Florence Nightingale: "She was not afraid of going even to the battle-front, and did not know what fear was. She feared only God. Knowing that one has to die some day or other, she readily bore whatever hardships were necessary in order to alleviate the sufferings of others."
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