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Tech Mahindra SMART Academies for Healthcare: Producing Job-Ready Students with a Virtual Hospital & Quality Education

It seems obvious that in a heavily populated country like India, adequate number of trained & employed health workers is crucial for common people to access quality care (and any care at all for the poor demography living in rural heartland). The findings of Public Health Foundation of India’s report leave little doubt about this tragic truth, affirming that our country has a staggering shortage of nearly 64.1 lakh allied health professionals, and stresses on the criticality of increasing paramedic workforce rapidly by setting up world-class allied health human resource institutes with stricter regulations. While the cost of training all the additional health workforce is estimated to cost the government around $136 million per year, the real challenge lies in building training...