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New Delhi: The Health and Family Welfare Department,
Government of India has proposed a Rs 2,900 crore scheme
to meet the acute shortage and the skewed distribution
of nurses across Indian states. Inaugurating the centenary
celebrations of Trained Nurses Association of India
(TNAI), the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare
Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss said that the new scheme aims
at creating human resources of nurses under the Development
of Nursing Services. According to the Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare, a large number of nursing personnel
are required under the National Rural Health Mission
(NRHM) to serve at primary health centres across the
country. While the Ministry is working towards strengthening
and improving the quality of the training, the government
has also chalked out plans for setting up additional
institutions under NRHM.
Based on the Planning Commission Task Force report that
highlights the acute shortage of Nurses in the country,
the Ministry has identified 230 districts that do not
have adequate institutions for training nursing staff.
As part of the strategic framework for Nursing during
11th five-year plan, the Ministry is looking at setting
up 24 centres of excellence at an overall investment
of 480 crore. Dr. Ramadoss also informed that the Ministry
plans to spend Rs 725 crore to set up 145 ANM schools
and further Rs 1370 crore for establishment of 137 GNM
schools in the 230 districts, that lack any nursing
training institutes. The Ministry has also chalked out
plans to spend nearly Rs 34 crore for strengthening
the existing 17 State Nursing Councils and Nursing Cells
in Directorate of Health Services at the state level.
The Minister also announced an investment of Rs 90 crore
for setting up six Colleges of Nursing in Rajasthan,
Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Uttar
Pradesh.
An additional Rs 200 crore has also been earmarked for
four Regional Institutes of Nursing in the four metros
- Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi - he said. Government
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in the Government. Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, met Mr. Goran
Hagglund, Minister for Health and Social Affairs of
Sweden on 20 November, 2008 at Stockholm (Sweden). During
his meeting with the Swedish Minister, the ongoing programmes
under the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)
assistance in India were discussed. With reference to
developing inter-institutional collaboration between
institutions in India and Sweden, for improving midwifery
and maternal health services in India.
Dr. Ramadoss thanked the Swedish Government for collaborating
with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), TNAI,
Academy of Nursing Studies (ANS) Hyderabad, White Ribbon
Alliance of India (WRAI), and the Society of Midwives
of India (SOMI). He appreciated the idea of imparting
training as a part of the institutional strengthening,
to various officers from Central and State Governments
dealing with maternal health and midwives from nursing
schools and colleges in Sweden. The Swedish partners
are the Karolinska Institute and the Swedish Midwifery
Association.
A.
B. Kulkarni
President - TNAI |
