India’s Healthcare Push Is Now Focusing on the ‘Last Mile’, Why That Matters to Ordinary Families

Healthcare Is Often Decided Long Before a Hospital Visit! For millions of Indians, healthcare does not begin in a large private hospital. It begins much closer to home, with an ASHA worker visiting a village, a nurse at a local health centre, or a frontline health worker guiding a pregnant mother or elderly patient. In many parts of India, these frontline workers become the first and sometimes only point of medical support for ordinary families. Now, the government is trying to strengthen this critical “last mile” of healthcare delivery through a newly launched integrated training framework aimed at improving the skills of India’s frontline healthcare workforce. India Launches a New Frontline Healthcare Training Framework Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda recently launched an integrated training framework designed to strengthen the capabilities of frontline healthcare workers across the country. The initiative focuses on workers involved in: primary healthcare maternal and child ...

Soham Halder

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