Nightingale medalist dies in Tianjin

(China Daily)
Updated: 2012-01-30

Wang Guiying, the Chinese winner of the prestigious Nightingale Medal for nursing, died in Tianjin on Sunday at the age of 93 after battling a brain tumor.

According to an agreement Wang signed more than two years ago, her body has been donated to the Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TUTCM).

At the donation ceremony held on Sunday in the Tianjin Hetong Old Age Home, where Wang spent her last years, Zhang Jinzhong, secretary of the TUTCM Committee of the Communist Party of China, said that by receiving Wang's donation, the university would carry forward Wang's selflessness in her life-long contribution to China's nursing cause.