Nurses for primary health centres to be recruited by NGO
A non-governmental organization Ekam
Foundation will soon recruit and train 741 nurses to be posted at primary
health centres (PHC) functioning under the directorate of public health across
the State. This non-governmental organization is working for child and maternal
health care.The training will be on obstetrics, neonatal, pediatrics, adolescent
care and emergency management.
Ekam will also train 192 government
staff nurses in maternal and child health care, and also on the assessment of
infrastructure and sanitation in PHCs, based on Unicef’s tools designed for
accreditation.
An official of the Tamil Nadu Health
Systems Project said, “We outsourced the recruitment of nurses through Ekam
Foundation to run our neonatal intensive care units at medical college
hospitals and government hospitals. This is basically a
public-private-partnership to provide better care for newborns.”
The recruitment of nurses is going on
and will be completed by December 14.At present, around 2,300 nurses recruited
by Ekam are working across the State.
This includes 640 of special newborn
care units, 340 at newborn stabilization units and 1,212 in non- communicable
disease intervention programs at PHCs, additional PHCs and urban PHCs.
Training on assessing infrastructure
and sanitation gaps at hospitals will be provided based on RMNCH+A guidelines.
