While reliable data on health workers in India is difficult to obtain, a report in The Lancet: India series says that the country has roughly 20 health workers per 10,000 population.The figure is arrived at when the workforce is calculated including allopathic doctors (31%), nurses and midwives (30%), pharmacists (11%), practitioners of ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy, unani, siddha, and homoeopathy (9%), and others (9%).In their paper ‘Human Resources for Health in India’, experts Mohan Rao, Krishna D Rao, A K Shiva Kumar, Mirai Chatterjee and Thiagarajan Sundararaman have called for urgent reforms. Associated with the Public Health Foundation of India, Rao regrets the absence of adequately trained health-care providers in public and private sectors.The National Rural Health Mission has brought in Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) services into mainstream medicine and by helping accredit 70,000 social health activists.
Source:Indian Express
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