Listen "Nurses: Rose Kiwanuka and Subadhra Devi Rai"
Episode Synopsis
Subadhra Devi Rai started her nursing career in a busy intensive care unit of a hospital in Singapore. She has also dedicated her life to working with those in desperate need in countries where her skills are in short supply, including Thailand, Nigeria and Laos. Subadhra, who's now a senior lecturer in health studies, recently won the Florence Nightingale International Foundation's International Achievement Award. Rose Kiwanuka isn't saving lives but helping patients as they die, she was Uganda's first palliative care nurse in the early 1990s. Rose, who is the national coordinator of the Palliative Care Association, has the momentous task of making patients and their families, in urban and rural communities, as comfortable as possible about death.(L) Rose Kiwanuka, Palliative Care Nurse, Uganda. Picture Credit: Alan Hofmanis
(R) Subadhra Devi Rai, Nurse, Singapore. Picture credit: Nanyang Polytechnic
(R) Subadhra Devi Rai, Nurse, Singapore. Picture credit: Nanyang Polytechnic
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