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Health Ministry Signed MoU with Indira Gandhi National Open University Details
Health Ministry Signed MoU with Indira Gandhi National Open University- Details, Objective, Purpose
Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to scale up the short term healthcare courses through its available vigorous platform.
Under the MoU, curriculum for 10 courses specially designed for the health sector will provide more than 14 lakh trained manpower by 2025.
The combined objective under this MoU is to scale up the health programs to create trained personnel in the healthcare sector and to set up a dedicated cell for developing, implementing and certifying the skill-based programs at IGNOU.
A powerful monitoring and assessment framework will be established under the MoU to ensure that Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) standards & guidelines are followed stringently.
The MoHFW will provide for financial assistance to IGNOU for establishing the structure and initiating the programs and the courses will be initiated in a phased manner across the Country by IGNOU.
At present, four courses will be launched nationwide under this MoU, namely Home Health Aide, Geriatric Care Assistant, Phlebotomist and General Duty Assistant.
