COMM A health visiter of Donetsk Red Cross Valentina Mamzina poses to a photographer with the Florence Nightingale Medal that she was awarded for her help rendered to Chornobyl disaster liquidators in April 1986, Donetsk, Tuesday, September 6, 2005. The Florence Nightingale Medal is the Red Cross Movement's highest international distinction award for the nursing profession. This award was created in 1912 by the 9th International Conference of the Red Cross in honour of Florence Nightingale, an English volunteer nurse . Nurse Nightingale and a group of 40 assistants took care of injured British soldiers at Scutari during the Crimean War (1854-1856). Photo by UNIAN