What is the need of skill development?
Personal Development: Skill development enhances the proficiency of a person in any particular area. Skill enhances to build the professional network, better communication, time management and negotiation skills. Nurturing Talent: Skills are something that can be acquired by learning.

Why is human skills important in healthcare?
Human factors skills deficiencies are a leading cause of clinical error, 4   5  and the value of training these skills is well recognised, specifically improving patient safety 6  and reducing mortality. However, methods of evaluating the effectiveness of training for practitioners in this field are not well developed.

Healthcare sector is the least automated sector where there is an immense need for trained and skilled professionals for offering quality services to the patients. Skill development and knowledge enhancement in the healthcare sector is the need of the hour. India continues to face a skilling challenge of vast proportions. It is estimated that 104 million fresh entrants to the workforce will require skill training by 2022, and 298 million of the existing workforce will require additional skill training over the same time period.

Growing skill gap :
Healthcare is one of the largest industries today both in terms of revenue and also size of employment, one of the biggest challenges that we face here is lack of skilled manpower. And, in a country like India not just shortage of skilled manpower but also lack of infrastructure for healthcare training and skilling is also a challenge. Globally, there is a shortage of about 80 million workforce. India, as we talk, is short of six million paramedics today. If you look at the WHO standards, 2.9 beds are required for every 1000 population and in India, we have only 0.9 beds. In order to meet this requirement, we need to add one lakh beds each year both in public and private hospitals. So, every bed needs about six to  eight manpower. So, one lakh beds would need eight lakhs skilled resources.

Anamay Healthcare services Foundation , has committed to specifically impart skills for unemployed youth, school dropouts, and women particularly from backward regions and rural areas to enhance their employment opportunities. These are models that can be emulated, whether it is to ensure gainful employment for the paramedics through basic skilling or reskilling and upskilling of doctors and nurses.

Some of the emerging areas like home healthcare and telemedicine, there is a severe shortage and there is a need for technicians in big numbers. Overall, in the next 10 years, India will require a huge skill manpower in this sector. India would need 80 million additional healthcare workforce globally in next 10 years. There are also emerging niche areas like healthcare analytics, sports medicine and rehabilitation, health informatics, health data science etc. We were talking only about the two bottom levels of the healthcare pyramid allied health and healthcare support services so far, but we also need people across healthcare human resource’s pyramid. At the top, we have super-specialty doctors and then general practitioners, nurses, allied health professionals and healthcare support services.

The government has been driving a variety of programmes with nation’s well- being as the core objective. In order to implement these programmes including Ayushman Bharat, the Skill India Mission, the government would need a large number of trained workforce to make these programmes happen on ground successfully.

At AHSF, we have aligned ourselves to the goals of Skill India movement and our initiatives are integrated with the industry demand. During mobilisation of the target group for training, our strategy is different for different levels of training. We carefully avoid aspiration mismatch as much as possible, because we are working on training workforce who will be in the job roles of saving lives in future. Students should have commitment and empathy and the ability to work under stress.

The Care Attendants requirement is rising day by day at hospitals, Nursing care centre’s , Assisted Living Centre’s and Homecare. The Care attendants currently working in any of the above facilities have never got any formal training nor are they certified to do so. There is necessity to have trained manpower at your services. Looking at the rising need of skilled and trained manpower Anamay has designed a course in Geriatric Care Assistance. This course will enable them to understand the Physical, Mental and Emotional need of the Seniors they are catering to. This course will also give them hands on training in assisting the nurse during the emergencies, they will be able to pick up any signs related to the medical condition and uprise it to the nurse or treating doctor. The course is of 700 hrs altogether with theory and practical knowledge of the same. The course is run at a very affording rates as every one who wants to work immediately and earn can do the course and run their families. The course can be taken up by anyone who is compassionate and caring with some level of education.