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{{Short description|Indian medical nurse}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|1 May 1972}}
| birth_place = Rangat, Middle Andamans, India
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| occupation = Medical nurse
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| spouse = Shaji Varghese
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>[[Florence Nightingale]] Award<br>Best Nurse of the Year
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'''Shanti Teresa Lakra''' is an Indian medical nurse and healthcare professional, known for her services to [[Onge people|Onge]] tribe in the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]], in the aftermath of the [[Tsunami of 2004]].<ref name="Shanti Teresa Lakra Conferred Padma Shri Award">{{cite journal | url=http://www.tnaionline.org/May-11/1.htm | title=Shanti Teresa Lakra Conferred Padma Shri Award | author=Trained Nurses' Association of India | journal=The Nursing Journal of India | date=May 2011 | volume=CII | issue=5 | archive-date=4 March 2016 | access-date=28 November 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041607/http://www.tnaionline.org/May-11/1.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Web India">{{cite web | url=http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20110205/1682402.html | title=Web India | publisher=Web India | date=4 February 2011 | accessdate=27 November 2014 | archive-date=25 December 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225062213/http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20110205/1682402.html | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="UNICEF">{{cite web | url=http://www.unicef.org/rosa/media_2588.htm | title=UNICEF | publisher=UNICEF | date=2014 | accessdate=27 November 2014}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] honored Lakra in 2011, with the fourth highest civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Shri | publisher=Padma Shri | date=2014 | accessdate=11 November 2014}}</ref>

==Biography==
{{quote box|align = right|width=21em|''In 2010, Shanti Teresa Lakra received the Florence Nightingale Award which is equivalent to the [[Dr. B. C. Roy Award|Dr. B. C. Roy National Award]] for doctors. The Florence Nightingale Award was given to her by Vice President Shri [[Hamid Ansari]] and after meeting her during the Award function, it was our Vice President who was so impressed with her that he nominated her for the [[Padma Shri]]. Let the story of Shanti Teresa Lakra be an inspiration for our nursing profession to work for the humanity and to aspire for such awards,'' wrote [[K. K. Aggarwal (cardiologist)|K. K. Aggarwal]], an Indian cardiologist and [[Padma Shri]] award winner.<ref name="E Medinews">{{cite journal | url=http://emedinews.blogspot.ae/2013/02/emedinewsinspirationpadma-shri-to.html | title=Inspiration:Padma Shri to Shanti Teresa Lakra | author=K. K. Aggarwal | journal=E Medinews |date=February 2013 }}</ref>}}

Shanti Teresa Lakra was born in a small hamlet called Rangat in the Middle Andamans, the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] on 1 May 1972.<ref name="Shanti Teresa Lakra Conferred Padma Shri Award" /> After completing her studies in nursing, she started her career in 2001, as an Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife at the Directorate of Health Services, Andaman and Nicobar Administration. Her initial posting was at the Public Health Centre at Dugong Creek, the land of [[Onge people]].<ref name="Shanti Teresa Lakra Conferred Padma Shri Award" /><ref name="Web India" /><ref name="Jagaran Josh">{{cite web | url=http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/national-florence-nightingale-award-2010-1286868786-1 | title=Jagaran Josh | publisher=Jagaran Josh | date=12 October 2010 | accessdate=27 November 2014}}</ref> She worked there for five years during which the [[Tsunami of 2004]] caused devastation to the settlements.<ref name="Web India" /> Lakra is reported to have lived in an open tent for two years,<ref name="Shanti Teresa Lakra Conferred Padma Shri Award" /> away from her own child, who was living with her mother in law during those days.<ref name="Thesi Profile">{{cite web | url=http://thesipoflife.com/2010/05/shanti-teresa-nightingale-of-the-primitive/ | title=Thesi Profile | publisher=Thesi Profile | date=2014 | accessdate=27 November 2014 | archive-date=5 December 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205114808/http://thesipoflife.com/2010/05/shanti-teresa-nightingale-of-the-primitive/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> A UNICEF trained health professional, Lakra worked with the Onge people which is known to have had a positive effect on the life expectancy of the dwindling<ref name="Journal of Social Research">{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MIQrAAAAIAAJ | title=Journal of Social Research | author=Dept. of Anthropology, Ranchi University, Bihar | journal=Journal of Social Research | year=1976}}</ref> [[Onge people|Onge]] population.<ref name="UNICEF" /><ref name="Thesi Profile" />

Catholic Health Association of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (CHAANI) honored Lakra, in 2010, as the ''Best Nurse of the Year''.<ref name="Shanti Teresa Lakra Conferred Padma Shri Award" /> The same year, the [[Government of India]] selected Lakra for the ''Florence Nightingale Award'',<ref name="Shanti Teresa Lakra Conferred Padma Shri Award" /><ref name="Web India" /><ref name="India's angels of mercy serve with a smile">{{cite journal | url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/51002971/indias-angels-mercy-serve-smile | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023421/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/51002971/indias-angels-mercy-serve-smile | url-status=dead | archive-date=2016-03-04 | title=India's angels of mercy serve with a smile | author=EBSCO | journal=South Asian Post |date=May 2010 | pages=12}}</ref> the highest Indian award<ref name="Press Information Bureau">{{cite web | url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=72115 | title=Press Information Bureau | publisher=Press Information Bureau | date=2011 | accessdate=28 November 2014}}</ref> in the category of nursing healthcare.<ref name="E Medinews" /><ref name="Jagaran Josh" /> A year later, the [[Government of India|government]] followed it up with the fourth highest civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Shri" />

Shanti Teresa Lakra is married to Shaji Varghese who runs a small business unit. The couple has a son.<ref name="Thesi Profile" />

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[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in other fields]]
[[Category:People from North and Middle Andaman district]]
[[Category:Indian women nurses]]
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