To meet the future demand of nurses in the city, which is being projected as a world class medical tourism centre, the city branch of AP Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association has decided to adopt nursing students. There are 300 private hospitals in the city with total bed strength of 10,000 in addition to the 5000 beds in the government hospitals and in the next two years several hospitals would come up pushing the bed strength by 2,500. The total bed strength of 17,500 in the city throws a challenge in the shape of providing trained and skilled nurses to this large number. Keeping this view the association has decided to bear all expenses of young men and women studying the three-year nursing course.
About 800 students will be trained in nursing course every year and the association would take care of expenses towards stay, food, books, transport, etc., its president K. Rajeswara Rao, former State president P. Visveswara Rao, MD of Indus Hospital Sridhar and president of Health City Hospitals Association S.K.E. Appa Rao informed at a press conference here on Tuesday.
By adopting the nursing students of the city, the association is providing the students from the below poverty line families an opportunity to get trained in nursing profession and secure a job with a monthly salary of Rs. 15,000.
Following are the number of nursing students each hospital would adopt: Pradhama Multi-speciality Hospital and Research Institute 300; Care Hospitals 200; Indus Hospital 120; Mahatma Gandhi Cancer Hospital and Research Institute 60; ABC Hospital 60; Padmaja Hospital 20; Bharathi Hospital, Apex Hospital, Sushruta ENT Hospital and Sagara Durga Nursing Home 10 each.
