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Nurses for primary health centres to be recruited by NGO

Posted on: 10/Dec/2013 4:21:18 PM

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 Unicefs 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.