Unemployed youth in AP to get paramedical training......... HYDERABAD: In order to create employment opportunities for the unemployed while bridging the gap of of paramedical staff shortage in hospitals, the Rajiv Education and Employment Mission Andhra Pradesh (REEMAP) has joined hands with Medical Education Research Centre for Education Technologies (MEdRC) to train youth in paramedical courses. According to healthcare experts, AP lacks around 6.5 lakh paramedical staff, including nurses, technicians, and emergency assistants. As part of the programme, 240 unemployed people with basic educational qualifications will be trained by MEdRC in basics of medical care, including patient assistance and healthcare systems. In the first phase of the pilot project, the students will be trained over a span of three months in Hyderabad and Mahbubnagar. Apart from technical skills, they will also be trained in aspects such as grooming, treating patients with empathy, how to read prescriptions, vital signs of patients and how to dispose medical waste etc. Students will also be trained in digital labs and mock sessions of patient treatment will be conducted to give the real feel of a healthcare centre. The team has also roped in AP Nursing Home Association, the Catholic Health Association of India and corporate hospitals, to absorb the students after their training. We will select students from diverse background and train them according to their inherent inclination towards different streams of medicine. With this programme we plan to not only solve the employment issue among these students but also address the vast requirement of paramedical staff that the healthcare sector in the state needs, said Dr Neeraj Raj, founder director, MEdRC. This initiative has been taken to create employment and at the same time to contribute to society. With the increasingly complex health situations, there is a pressing need to develop an equally robust support system in healthcare centres, said K C Reddy, chairman, REEMAP. Experts say information and communication technology has immense potential in scaling efforts to enhance health literacy. There is a shortage of manpower at all levels of health systems and with this initiative a partial gap will be filled in the demand-supply scenario, said M N Rao, chairman, MEdRC.TOI
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 05:17:24 +0000
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