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| J&K in Union Cabinet's list for opening new nursing schools | | | ABID SHAH
EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, Mar 4: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs met here today to clear among other things the establishment of training centres for raising a paramedic corps, mainly nursing and midwifery staff, in high priority States selected on the basis of lack of healthcare facilities and trained personnel. This would cover Jammu and Kashmir among other States.
The Centre would foot a major chunk or 85 percent of a whopping over Rs 2,000 crore required for this. The rest of the sum or 15 percent would be borne by the States. A Press release issued here this evening after the CCEA meeting that was presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that it "approved establishment of 137 General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) Schools under the Scheme of Upgradation and Strengthening of Nursing Services (Human Resource for Health) in the states like Bihar, Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, North Eastern States, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and other districts in the country preferably which do not have General Nursing and Midwifery schools."
"The schools will be opened in these states at a total cost of Rs1370 crore with a cost sharing pattern of 85:15 between the Central Government and States. The expenditure on the part of Central Government would be Rs1164.50 crore and the States are to contribute Rs.205.50 crore."
The CCE Affairs also approved to further cover up shortage of nurses the setting up of 132 Auxiliary Nursing and Midwifery (ANM) Schools under the same scheme in the States of Bihar, Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, North Eastern States, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and other districts in the country preferably which do not have Auxiliary Nursing and Midwifery schools.
The schools would be opened in these states at a total cost of Rs 660 crore. The cost sharing pattern for this would again be 85:15 between the Central Government and the States. The expenditure on the part of Central Government would be Rs 561 crore and the States would have to contribute Rs 99 crore.
Both sets of schools to be set up under the twin schemes are expected to increase the availability of trained nursing manpower and improve the quality of nursing education in the backward and special category States. This would also facilitate improvement in the quality of nursing services in the Hospitals.
Before today's CCEA's decision, the Government had decided to increase number of seats in postgraduate courses in State-run medical colleges throughout the country with a target of enabling 5,000 MBBS doctors to get specialised training. The Cabinet had approved recently roughly about Rs 100 crores for each medical college for augmentation of postgraduate courses, seats and facilities for this.
These schemes are brainchild of Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad. He had earlier enviasaged giving a three-year training to equip rural youth with necessary educational background to be trained as doctors so that they could work in their areas as general medical practitioners. There has been criticism of this and the critiques had said that this could amount to discriminating rural area since it could rob villages and small towns of the right to have specialist doctors at Government run health centres. Soon Azad decided to first add 5,000 more specialist doctors a year and the rural doctors scheme has since been kept in abeyance.
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