India urgently needs a robust policy to expand and standardize production of trained health workers. NHPS has faced a mix of admiration and criticism from policy makers, politicians, healthcare workers and academics. Unless the delivery machinery in healthcare is extensively overhauled, even the skeptics-approved, tightened version of NHPS will remain a strategy on paper that will hit implementation crisis from the word go. India urgently needs a robust policy to expand and standardize production of trained health workers. The incentive structure of public health workers must be reframed to become competitive, to retain them within public institutes, and within India.

Source: Mint April 07, 2018 09:00 UTC