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Detailed explanation-1: -National Florence Nightingale Award 2019: The award was presented by President Ram Nath Kovind to Lini Puthussery, the nurse from Kerala who died due to Nipah virus, and it was received by her husband Sajeesh P. Kerala nurse Lini Puthussery died treating a Nipah patient last year.

Detailed explanation-2: -The President of India Conferred National Florence Nightingale Award to Dr Elsa Sanatombi Devi of MAHE Manipal.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sajeesh Puthur, the husband of Kerala nurse Lini Puthusserry, who died of Nipah virus infection in 2018, has announced his remarriage.

Detailed explanation-4: -Two Muslim nurses Naziya Parveen and Shabrun Khatun from Bihar were awarded this year’s National Florence Nightingale Awards (NFNA) by the President of India, Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan earlier this month.

Detailed explanation-5: -The National Florence Nightingale Awards were instituted in the year 1973 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India as a mark of recognition for the meritorious services rendered by the nurses and nursing professionals to the society.