Huge shortage of nurses in India: WHO

GN Bureau | May 22, 2010




India faces huge shortfall of nurses, says a report released by the World Health Organisation. According to its report, “India will need 2.4 million nurses by 2012 to achieve the government's aim of a nurse-patient ratio of one nurse per 500 population.” 

The WHO said that shortage of nurse is more in the developing countries than in the developed countries. “Paucity of training is cited as one of the main reasons for the global nurse shortage,” the report further added. It also said that nurses' training is often an issue with the developing countries including India.

“In India, some of the issues related to nurse retention still remain to be tackled – job insecurity for the contractual staff, low pay in both the government and private sectors, lack of a conducive work environment and infrastructure facilities,” said the report.

Annually, India produces around 60,000 nurses.

Read the report.

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