COINN_Awards_Slideshow1Northern Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots, center, stands with the Second International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award runner up Netsayi Gowero of Malawi, left, winner Anila Ali Bardai of Pakistan, center left, and Christine Sammy of Kitui, Kenya, right. The three neonatal nurses accepted their prize at the 8th International Neonatal Nursing Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Friday, September 6, 2013.
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COINN_Awards_Slideshow2The Second International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award winners, nurse Christine Sammy of Kitui, Kenya, left, nurse Anila Ali Bardai of Pakistan, center, and runner up nurse Netsayi Gowero of Malawi, pose with their award at the 8th International Neonatal Nursing Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Friday, September 6, 2013.
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COINN_Awards_Slideshow3Nurse Anilla Ali Bardai of Karachi, Pakistan, left, and nurse Christine Sammy of Kitui, Kenya, right, are announced as the Second International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award winners at the 8th International Neonatal Nursing Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Friday, September 6, 2013.
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COINN_Awards_Slideshow4Dr. Jow Lawn of Save the Children and a professor at the London School of Hygene and Tropical Medicine, left, is photographed with nurse Netsayi Gowero of Blantyre, Malawi on September 6, 2013 at the 8th International Neonatal Nursing Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Gowero was awarded the runner up prize for the Second International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award.
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COINN_Awards_Slideshow9Dr. Joy Lawn of Save the Children and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, left, poses with nurse Christine Sammy of Kitui, Kenya after Sammy was awarded the Second International Neonatal Excellence Nursing Award at the 8th International Neonatal Nursing Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland on September 6, 2013. Sammy shared the award with Anila Ali Bardai of Karachi, Pakistan.
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COINN_Awards_Slideshow8Dr. Joy Lawn of Save the Children and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, left, poses with nurse Anilia Ali Bardai, of Karachi, Pakistan after Bardai was awarded the Second International Neonatal Excellence Nursing Award at the 8th International Neonatal Nursing Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland on September 6, 2013.
COINN_Awards_Slideshow5Netsayi Gowero of Blantyre, Malawi, left, is awarded the Runner Up prize for the Second International Neonatal Nursing Excellence by Karen New, right, President of the Conference of International Neonatal Nurses at the 8th International Neonatal Nursing Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland on September 6, 2013.
COINN_Awards_Slideshow6Neonatal nurses Netsayi Gowero, Christine Sammy, Anila Ali Bardai and Regina Obeng, left to right, talk at the 8th International Neonatal Nursing Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Gowero was awarded the Second International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award runner up prize. Sammy and Bardai were both awarded the winners. Obeng was one of the 2010 winners of the award.
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COINN_Awards_Slideshow7Neonatal nurses Anila Ali Bardai, Ann Parry and Christine Sammy, left to right, talk at the 8th International Neonatal Nursing Conference in Belfast, Nothern Ireland on September 7, 2013. Bardai and Sammy, of Pakistan and Kenya, respectively, were both award the Second Interantional Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award. Parry is a neonatal nurse with the Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust.
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COINN_Awards_Slideshow10Nurse Christine Sammy, COINN CEO Carole Kenner, nurse Netsayi Gowero, Save the Children's Fergus Cooper, nurse Regina Obeng, Dr. Joy Lawn of Save the Children and nurse Anila Ali Bardai, left to right, are photographed at the 8th International Neonatal Nurses Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Friday, September 6, 2013. Sammy and Bardai were awarded the Second International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award winners, while Gowero was named the runner up.
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Three neonatal nurses were recognized for the commitment to neonatal nursing, mentoring and training others, along with improving outcomes for newborn babies at the 8th International Neonatal Nursing Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland.