NBAHS to draft guidelines for allied health professionals:
News published in The Hindu News Paper dated Jan 4, 2016
The National Board for
Allied Health Sciences (NBAHS) proposed to be set up by the Union Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare (MoH & FW) will divide the functional areas of
Allied Health Professionals (AHP) into three categories namely diagnostics,
technical and therapeutics for drafting separate standard operating procedures.
Besides, it (NBAHS) will be the common regulatory agency for the AHP.
The MoH & FW has felt the need to have uniform
guidelines and norms for AHP by bringing them under one umbrella (NBAHS) on the
lines of similar regulatory systems followed in the developed countries.
Objective
The NBAHS will make a comprehensive set of rules governing
the ‘support services’ rendered by AHP in order to have standardised mechanism
thereof. “Healthcare professionals like physiotherapists, pathology
technologists and medical radiation technologists are playing a vital role in
delivering healthcare in the nation. It is to acknowledge their efforts that
the government has decided to set up the NBAHS for ensuring proper standards
and their professional development”, said Shri. G. Krishna Murthy, Director of
R&D at Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences (NTRUHS).
He told The Hindu NBAHS provides a platform for
standardisation of courses and curriculum in physiotherapy,
optometry, speech language pathology, medical lab technology, radiography etc.
Autonomous bodies
The Public Health Foundation of India (PFHI) suggested to
the MoH & FW to form the institution with the stated purpose.
A study by it recommended that there should be an
establishment of national and regional institutes of allied health sciences as
autonomous bodies fully funded by the Central government.
Role of a common
regulator
The NBAHS will be playing the role of a common regulator
like the Medical, Dental and Nursing Councils of India and the Central Council
of Indian Medicine of the Ministry of AYUSH.
Another objective of NBAHS is to make skilled AHP available
for future needs as they are expected to be in short–supply over the next few
years.
Poor quality of services found
Under the existing unorganised setup, the quality of
services provided by AHP has been found to be poor as they adopted their own
standards which drastically varied from one place to another. This adversely
affected the treatment outcomes causing death or morbidity in many cases.
The functional areas of Allied Health Professionals will be
divided into three categories namely diagnostics, technical and therapeutics
for drafting separate standard operating procedures.
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Source:
The Hindu News Link dated Jan 04 2016: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/nbahs-to-draft-guidelines-for-allied-health-professionals/article8063804.ece
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