India’s healthcare industry is growing at a tremendous pace on the back of a growing population of 1.35 billion and urbanization. Both Government and the private sector have responded with significant investments in infrastructure, capabilities, and institutional mechanisms resulting in healthcare becoming one of the largest sectors – both in terms of revenue and employment.

 

We expect this growth to continue and envision that India’s healthcare sector will witness changes such as increasing health-seeking behavior, increasing life expectancy, bigger geriatric population, rise in chronic and lifestyle diseases, increased medical tourism, sudden breakdown of diseases like Covid to name a few.

 

It is estimated that India will require 600,000 to 700,000 additional beds over the next five to six years. India will need to add several skilled and motivated healthcare professionals at each level to meet this demand.

Healthcare sector will need to transform rapidly to meet these new challenges and demands impressed upon the system. Nurses form the largest segment of the healthcare workforce and play a vital and major role in delivering healthcare effectively. There is an immense need for well-trained nurses who are not only technically sound but also specialized in various fields and abreast with the latest healthcare technologies.

Nurses have a very demanding career, and each day brings a new challenge for them. They care selflessly for patients and their families. They are the backbone of the healthcare system, working tirelessly round the clock, at the bedside of each patient.

 

They are alert and responsive, and monitor, plan and coordinate all patient care activities — all this in a complex and fast-changing environment of healthcare, which demands progressively higher technical competencies, as well as increasing service expectations from patients.

 

Nurses form the largest and one of the most crucial segments of human resources in the health sector. India today faces a significant gap in the demand and supply of nurses. Nursing education and nursing practice both require strengthening too.

There are 13 nurses per 10,000 people in India whereas 98 nurses are available per 10,000 people in the USA. In the public health system, the government has a norm of one nurse per primary health center and seven per community health center.

 

By those standards, rural India is short of more than 13,000 nurses, according to data from the Rural Health Statistics 2016. There has been a 130 percent rise in the number of sanctioned posts for nurses in rural public health centers–from 34,061 in 2005 to 78,530 in 2016.

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