Centre plans to create one lakh quality healthcare professionals over next five years, says Union Health Secretary

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Punya Salila Srivastava, Union Health Secretary, presenting the grade  scrolls to students astatine  the 12th Annual Convocation of Nursing and Allied Health Science Courses astatine  Jipmer successful  Puducherry connected  Thursday.

Punya Salila Srivastava, Union Health Secretary, presenting the grade scrolls to students astatine the 12th Annual Convocation of Nursing and Allied Health Science Courses astatine Jipmer successful Puducherry connected Thursday. | Photo Credit: KUMAR SS

Acknowledging the value of nursing and allied wellness subject successful laying a beardown instauration for nationalist wellness transportation strategy of the government, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Punya Salila Srivastava said the Central authorities has acceptable an ambitious program to make 1 lakh prime healthcare professionals implicit the adjacent 5 years.

Participating successful the 12th convocation ceremonial of nursing and allied wellness subject courses of the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research here, the Union Health Secretary said nursing and allied wellness subject are the pillars of a beardown nationalist wellness transportation mechanism. They are the instauration for bully nationalist wellness work transportation system, she added.

Stating that the authorities has acceptable an ambitious program to make 1 lakh prime healthcare professionals implicit the adjacent 5 years, she expressed assurance that Jipmer would proceed to service arsenic a nationalist exemplary and centre of excellence successful healthcare acquisition and training.

The measures, specified arsenic enactment of National Nursing and Midwifery Commission Act and the National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions Act, are a reflection of the government’s steadfast content that prime healthcare transportation depended not lone connected doctors, but arsenic connected skilled nursing and allied wellness professionals, Ms. Srivastava noted.

Urging the graduates to perpetrate themselves to federation gathering and service, the Health Secretary said healthcare professionals person a profound relation successful shaping the aboriginal of the nation. Their enactment would straight lend to the strengthening of country’s nationalist wellness system, she added.

Describing country’s healthcare workers arsenic “best ambassadors” of India crossed the world, she said the Union authorities has entered into migration and mobility agreements with countries specified arsenic the UK, France and Italy to facilitate planetary opportunities for Indian healthcare professionals.

Elaborating connected the government’s nationalist wellness imaginativeness guided by the National Health Policy 2017, she said the accent was connected preventive, promotive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative healthcare. The Ayushman Arogya Mandirs and Health and Wellness Centres person expanded importantly crossed the state with implicit 1.8 lakh centres present functioning with the intent of providing broad superior healthcare services, including screening and absorption of non-communicable diseases, she said.

Underlining the value of maintaining prime standards done Indian Public Health Standards and National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS), she said astir 64,000 nationalist wellness facilities crossed the state person present achieved NQAS certificate. She besides stressed upon the request for strengthening the Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory web and integrated illness surveillance systems crossed the country. 

Director of Jipmer Vir Singh Negi successful his code said the 476-bed aesculapian assemblage successful Karaikal would beryllium acceptable by July adjacent year. Various different infrastructure projects worthy astir ₹119 crore are astatine assorted stages, helium said. Among others who spoke were Nitin M. Nagarkar, the erstwhile Director of AIIMS, Raipur, who is Member of Institute Body of Jipmer and Chairperson of Standing Academic Committee of the institution.

A full of 320 students from nursing and allied wellness subject courses were awarded degrees astatine the convocation. 

Published - May 14, 2026 08:45 p.m. IST

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