Ghulam Nabi Azad, Minister for Health and Family Welfare released the National Occupational Standards for Allied Health & Paramedics at the Healthcare Skill Summit, organised by CII, NSDC and Healthcare Sector Skill Council (HSSC). He said that this was a very important initiative from the point of view of both public health as well as employment generation. The Government of India attaches highest priority to skill development, aimed at creating productive employment, he added. He was particularly happy that as many as fifteen allied health areas requiring diverse skill sets had been covered in the occupational standards by the HSSC in the first instance itself. These job roles were critical support-roles in the healthcare delivery system and having a uniform standard would definitely help in better provision of patient care services in different categories of health institutions located across the country.
Azad also highlighted various initiatives undertaken by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare which had transformed the health sector in the country. Some of these were screening for diabetes and hypertension, free entitlements for mothers and children, mobile medical units and ambulances and Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram. He emphasised that successful and effective implementation of all these initiatives and national programmes required greater availability of trained and skilled human resources and therefore he drew a lot of satisfaction at the constitution of the Healthcare Sector Skill Council by National Skill Development Corporation and CII.
The Minister hailed HSSC for responding to community’s needs by choosing community related job roles such as Diabetes Educator and Frontline Health Workers on priority basis.
EH News Bureau
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