Nurses crucial for cost-effective, good quality healthcare: Pranab
Mukherjee
New Delhi: President Pranab
Mukherjee on Friday said nurses and midwives are crucial in delivering
"cost-effective and good quality healthcare". He was speaking at
Rashtrapati Bhavan after presenting the National Florence Nightingale Awards to
nursing personnel on the occasion of International Nurses Day.
"Nurses in India are at the
forefront of our national healthcare system. Their contribution is central to
its success. Our nation is proud of their services," a release quoted
Mukherjee as saying.
The President also said significant
gains were made in "increasing life expectancy and reducing child and
maternal mortality" in both urban and rural India throughout the 20th
century and into the 21st century.
Saying that the need to adapt our
standards to the evolving demands of healthcare and update the capacities was
self-evident, Mukherjee said: "Our country needs to respond swiftly to
healthcare challenges that keep coming up."
As per the release, Mukherjee was
glad to see that the National Health Policy, 2017, "envisages a new
momentum in innovation and nursing". He added that Indian nurses take on
greater local, national and international roles.
"We need to ensure appropriate
professional development and human resource policies in our country and
increased involvement of nurses in policy development," he said.
"The complexity of medical and
healthcare practices today demands that nurses are fully involved in the
planning, implementation, research and evaluation that goes into the successful
delivery of patient care," he said.
15.05.2017
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