A 92-year-old re­tired nurse and for­mer nurs­ing tu­tor is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to recog­nise the val­ue of nurs­es by en­sur­ing they are paid salaries that al­low them to ad­e­quate­ly sup­port their fam­i­lies.

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia at the open­ing of the nurs­es ex­hib­it at the Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem Au­thor­i­ty (NALIS) yes­ter­day, Yvonne Pil­grim said from 1952 to present, nurs­es have had to im­pro­vise as there was al­ways a lack of re­sources.

The ex­hib­it comes days be­fore Nurs­es’ Week, which starts next Sun­day.