Quality Health care remains one of the most fundamental necessities for mankind. Modern day lifestyles have triggered an increase in stress, new aliments and diseases. Today, while there are clinics and hospital mushrooming everywhere, the need of the hour is to groom well qualified and trained personnel.
Good nursing is backbone to a speedy, uneventful recovery & health. The nurse thus needs to be a holistically developed individual with a sound mind in a sound body. There is vast scarcity of nursing staff in not only Bihar but all over India.
Till 2019 there has remained a shortage of 1.94 million nurses in India. The level of the shortage of nurses, especially in our state, could be learnt with the following data.
The district with the highest density of nurses with any level of education is Kottayam (Kerala) 396.6 per lakh population.
The district with the lowest density of nurses is Madhepura (Bihar) 4.8 per lakh population.
In our district Aurangabad (Bihar) the density of nurses is 11.6 per lakh population.
Having it in view for the sake of service to people Dr. Abhay Kumar, chairman of Dev Foundation Trust, has worked tirelessly to get St. Mary Nursing Institute permitted being its founder by Indian Nursing Council, the supreme controlling body of nursing education.
