NHS Scotland emergency hospital to be named after Louisa Jordan

The proposed emergency hospital to be created at the Scottish Exhibition Centre by NHS Scotland is to be named NHS Louisa Jordan, the Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has announced today in Holyrood. The announcement is available at https://www.gov.scot/news/nhs-louisa-jordan/. If required, the emergency hospital will act in a similar way to the NHS Nightingale facility currently being established in London by NHS England.

The naming of the hospital is a fitting honour to Maryhill born nursing sister Louisa Jessie Jordan, who in the First World War found herself as a member of the Scottish Women's Hospital serving with the 1st Serbian unit. After much service treating the Serbian wounded and sufferers of typhus, Louisa sadly died of typhus herself in March 1915. Her sacrifice is remembered each year to this day by the people of Serbia.

For more on Louisa's story, and that of the Scottish Women's Hospital, please visit http://www.scotlandswar.co.uk/jordan.html and http://www.parliament.scot/EducationandCommunityPartnershipsresources/EDU_10_Scottish_Womens_Hospital_Women.pdf.

Chris

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