23 Facts About Miki Hanada

Miki Hanada was a Japanese researcher of health nursing and health advisor.

Miki Hanada devoted herself to saving lives and health of people in Aomori Prefecture after the World War II, making efforts in building the educational institute for nurses, resolving towns and villages without health nurses from the standpoint of health administration, and establishing the system of rescue and nursing in remote areas.

Miki Hanada's attitude has been handed down to a number of people who engage in nursing in Aomori even in Heisei period.

Miki Hanada was called up as a military nurse after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, thus she spent almost all her youth in the battlefields.

Miki Hanada returned to the military after recovering from the typhoid fever.

Miki Hanada became the head nurse of the nursing school in Hachinohe Red Cross Hospital which opened in the same year in Hachinohe and started to live in the residential hall together with her students.

Miki Hanada, receiving the request from the doctor who was in charge of it, went to Tokyo for studying the treatment.

Miki Hanada got the information materials of Kenny Method which was effective in Australia from GHQ with the help for JRCS.

Miki Hanada's desire was achieved by opening the Aomori-ken Koto Kango Gakuin.

Miki Hanada visited high schools around Aomori in order to attract students by introducing Florence Nightingale with her handmade picture-story shows and to explain the importance of nursing education.

Miki Hanada was asked to be the unit chief because she was the very person who proposed to establish the educational institute.

In 1964, in order to resolve the infant mortality rate of Aomori that was the highest in Japan those days, Miki Hanada started a campaign called "Mottara Korosuna Undo " together with health nurses and midwives.

Miki Hanada gave mothers bleached cotton to support their wombs if they notify their pregnancy to the Prefectural Government early for the purpose of raising awareness of not having fetuses die.

Miki Hanada won the Public Health Award held by Dai-ichi Life Group in the same year, and To-o Award by To-o Daily Press in the following year.

Miki Hanada actively accepted many requests of lectures and interviews.

The system was to have elderly people help work each other through the special tickets instead of money, where Miki Hanada announced herself as the president.

Miki Hanada told the reason in the bulletin of Aogiri-kai titled Aogiri-kai Dayori as a previous military nurse and a person who experienced the WWII as below;.

In 1998, Miki Hanada resigned the head of Aogiri-kai on account of old age.

Miki Hanada stayed away from people who were in close relationships before, only keeping in touch with them by exchanging letters.

In 2006, Miki Hanada died for the liver cancer at the age of 91.

Miki Hanada was unmarried throughout her life because she lost the chance because of the war.

Miki Hanada herself was severely told off by her boss even though she knew nothing.

Miki Hanada clashed with her boss when tackling on the health nursing in remote areas, which made her write resignation letters several times.