Her son Yogeshwar Amatya, a popular Nepalese singer and musician, accepted the certificate on her behalf.

[5] Amatya was born as Lamu Palden on 27 January 1932 (14 Magh 1988 BS) in Darjeeling, India.

He was the porter and interpreter of the mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine during the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition.

One day he had gone to Calcutta Medical College for his leg treatment, there he met Lamu and fell in love with her.

So, on 13 March 1956 (30 Falgun 2032 BS), Amatya opened the first ever nursing school in Nepal by renting a building in Chhetrapati.

On 30 April 2017 (7 Magh 2073 BS), Gagan Thapa, the then Minister of Health and Population declared Amatya as the first nurse of Nepal.