Sendi: Aiko Kin, a 59-year-old nurse in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, has been awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal by the International Committee of the Red Cross for her dedication to the victims of the 2011 quake and tsunami. Kin, deputy director and head nurse at the Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital, was among 32 nurses from 16 countries to receive the medal, which honors “exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural disaster.”
In the immediate aftermath of the catastrophe, she worked frantically in the hospital’s hastily set up emergency headquarters, which served as the main aid center in the coastal city, believing she would be reunited with her husband soon. |
