World＇s First Nightingale Award Male Winner

Balsang Dengzhub, a nurse with the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture People＇s Hospital, will remember forever August 5, 2003. It was on that day he received the 39th Nightingale Award certificate issued by the International Red Cross from CPC General Secretary and President Hu Jing tao in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. He thus became the first Tibetan to win the award named after the British medical pioneer Florence Nightingale （1820-1910） and also the first Chinese male.