“I have long felt the enhancement of the nursing profession to be absolutely critical to the improvement of health care in the developing world, and the Islamic world. The way forward was to professionalise, to institutionalise, and to dignify this great profession.”

His Highness the Aga Khan

Recipient of the Archon Award of the prestigious nursing honour society

– Sigma Theta Tau International

Copenhagen, Denmark

June 7, 2001

Speech at Press Centre, AKDN