Allied
and healthcare professionals database portal
The Union Health ministry has launched
a web portal which will act as a robust data repository of allied and
healthcare workers, help in bringing transparency and track the number of such
professionals.
According to the World Health
Organization (WHO), “Allied health personnel are personnel who have
specific connections with the art and science of health care and are recognized
as members of health team in the national health system. They are educated,
with different levels of professional qualifications, in a recognized or
accredited health or health related or academic Institution".
Allied
& healthcare professionals include individuals involved with the delivery
of health or related services, with expertise in therapeutic, diagnostic,
curative, preventive and rehabilitative interventions. They work in interdisciplinary
health teams including physicians, nurses and public health officials to
promote, protect, treat and/or manage a person’s physical, mental, social,
emotional and environmental health and holistic well-being.
Benefits of the portal
This is a provisional measure taken by
the Government of India to reach out to all the allied and healthcare
professionals in the country so that they may be effectively tracked as part of
the overall HRH data available with the Government of India. This will help the
government to estimate the numbers and streams of allied and healthcare
existing in the country.
It
will help the Government to track the number of professionals and streams of
allied and healthcare professions in the country. It may further prove helpful in
expediting the envisaged processes viz. licensing of professionals, workforce
policy planning, and bringing transparency in the system by maintaining
standards of educational and clinical practice etc.
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