The letter of 17 July from the National Commission for Allied and Health Professions (NCAHP) shows growing concerns about the delay that could affect the quality of health care throughout the country.
Many states have not yet created these important advice, as required by the NCAHP law of 2021. This act has been introduced to create a regulation and set clear rules for training and work of various healthcare support employees.
The letter seen by Mint, specifically pointing out that 11 states and trade unions still have not created its advice. These states/UTS are Andaman & Nicobar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Ladakh, Lakshadweep, Puduchherry, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Another 11 countries have created its advice, but did not meet the rules of 2021. These regions include Assam, Bihar, Dadra and Nagar Havel and Daman & Diu, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Pandjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim and West Bengal.
The letter stressed “disagreements”, such as the nomination of doctors as chairmen or members.
These State Councils are essential to ensure that allied and healthcare workers throughout India are properly trained, registered and safely practiced.
They are responsible for setting standards to ensure that schools and educational programs offer quality education and records, ie maintaining official lists of qualified experts, helping patients know to take care of trained individuals.
These advice also ensure that experts follow strict rules and ethics in their work and provide improved care to the patient.
Who are allied healthcare workers?
Allied healthcare professionals are the backbone of the healthcare system and closely cooperate with doctors and nurses to provide comprehensive patient care. They are specialized experts in different areas such as diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation patients.
This group includes a wide range of roles such as physiotherapists, technologists of medical laboratories, radiological technicians, nutritional/diet experts and work therapists and emergency medical techniques (EMT). Basically, they are highly qualified experts who play a crucial role in the patient’s recovery, diagnostics and overall health management.
Dr. Rajeev Jayadevan, a public health expert and the past President Indian Medical Association (Cochin), said that health care includes teamwork and all members play a role in ensuring good results. “The doctor or nurse himself will not be able to achieve the fact that without other team members-they are together together to be called allied healthcare workers. These include physiotherapists, laboratory techniques, radiological technologists, nutritionists, optometristians and others are essential on individual team training, and others are in individual teams and The medical staff in each team.
Act NCAHP, 2021 orders each state and trade union to establish the State Allied and Health Council to regulate these professions. However, many of them either did not fulfill or create advice that did not correspond to the provisions of the law.
Jayadevan said there were several consequences of this delay. “It leaves patients vulnerable to unskilled and unregulated experts without legal supervision to prevent unethical or dangerous procedures. Delaying properly implementing patient safety, quality of labor and wider public health objectives.”
Questions sent by spokesperson of the Ministry of Health remained unanswered.
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