Bengaluru based Asian Research & Training Institute for Skill Transfer has resolved to train 1,000 frontline maternal healthcare workers at a cost of INR 1 crore over the next year across Karnataka to strengthen the delivery of quality maternal healthcare services in the public and private sectors.
Further to scale up this initiative tripartite agreement has been signed between ARTIST for Her (Asian Research & Training Institute for Skill Transfer), Healthcare Sector Skill Council (HSSC), and Association of Healthcare Providers India (AHPI) to train 1 million frontline healthcare workers across the country. To provide quality healthcare to pregnant women, mothers, and newborn babies, in accordance with the standards set by the WHO and the Government of India, as part of Vision 2022 Skill India
Speaking about this initiative, Dr. Hema Divakar, Chair of Well Woman Healthcare Committee at FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) & Chairperson, ARTIST for Her, We, ARTIST for Her, as a premier training institute, will train about 1,000 frontline maternal care workers (ASHA staff, nurses, and medical practitioners) across public and private sectors to strengthen the healthcare delivery system. The initiative leverages technology to achieve successful skill transfer through a proven and reliable digital platform.”
Dr. Hema further added “A pilot initiative was successfully rolled out in Karnataka with the support of AHPI. This will be extended in phases to Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra later to the rest of the country. For the 30 million deliveries in India, the proportion of healthcare workers with skills specified by WHO is weak. It is our target to raise the availability of this pool of skilled workforce to be placed in maternity units, public or private hospitals to care for pregnant mothers, newborn mothers, or post-delivery stage in alignment with WHO, FOGSI, Manyata, and government standards. This will go a long way in reducing maternal mortality rate, infant mortality rate and also address long-term issues, such as anemia, obesity, hypertension,”.
Dr. Alexander Thomas, President, AHPI said “We will be training 15,000 healthcare workers on priority as part of this arrangement and cover it in phases to reach 1 million. AHPI will identify the target groups for training, ARTIST for Her will undertake capacity building and HSSC will do the assessment and certification. Frontline healthcare workers with such certification can be readily employable by any maternal healthcare units”. The initiative will also target capacity building of frontline workers at e-Sanjeevani clinics, Namma Clinics in Karnataka.
