India planned to recruit around Seven Lac Health Care Providers at Rural Level

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India planned to recruit around Seven Lac Health Care Providers at

Rural Level

Shortage: Health Care Providers at Global Level - WHO

Dr. Avnish Jolly,25 May:According to recently released report by World Health

Organization (WHO), there are 2.4 million physicians, nurses and midwives to

provide essential health interventions. This means that over a billion people

have no access to healthcare professionals.

According to report, `Scaling up, Saving Lives' - launched at the

World Health Assembly in Geneva on Wednesday - said 57 countries

faced crisis of fewer Health Care Providers than required, 36 of

which were from sub-Saharan Africa and five in Latin America and the

Caribbean.

Most important findings of the report are world is facing a serious

shortage of Health Care Providers. The crisis is impairing essential

life-saving interventions such as childhood immunisation, safe

pregnancy and delivery services for mothers and access of treatment

for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB.

It said that India's general shortage of medical personnel had been

intensified by poor distribution of Health Care Providers. More than

80% of India's Medical and Paramedical staff works in the private

sector in higher income urban areas.

A Planning Commission document had recently said India was short of Eighteen Lac

Health Care Providers (Six Lac Doctors, Ten Lac Nurses and Two Lac Dental

Surgeons). For every 10,000 Indians, there was one doctor.

According to National Rural Health Mission, the 110-page report said

India planned to recruit around Seven Lac Health Care Providers at

village and sub-district levels by 2013. It said that worldwide,

there were 59.8 million health workers. About two-thirds of them

provided health services, the rest were management and support

workers.

The report also said significant International Migration of Health

Care Providers was another global issue. Western countries are often

accused of poaching Health Care Providers from the developing

countries with the attraction of better perks. But this accounts for

only 12% of the gap in Health Care Providers. The Planning

Commission, however, estimates that Health Care Providers in

developed countries form nearly 5% of their workforce.

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