About SAHES

Health is one of the most important aspects of human life. To maintain sound health is challenging as there are huge gaps in the facilities available and those needed.  In order to overcome the shortfall of care given via service providers, Allied Healthcare Professionals (AHPs) would have to play an increasingly prominent role in providing better health services to an Indian population. There are an urgent need for the government to plug policy gaps and ensure the availability of the right human resources for quality care at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels as well.

With the advancement of technology in the health sector and changing preferences of consumers and providers, it is necessary to create a fresh vision of healthcare delivery based on a patient-centric approach and focus on moving to a multi-disciplinary team-based care model. There is a need to implement new ways of using health workers, strengthening the workforce by testing task shifting models, improving and increasing access to quality services through a qualified, skilled, and competent set of allied and healthcare professionals.

As the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India gets ready to undertake a facelift for the entire allied health workforce by establishing national and regional institutes of distinction like AIIMS, DMIMS (DU) extends their excellence by starting courses such as B.Sc. MRIT, B.Sc. RT, B.Sc. DTT, B. Optometry under the School of Allied Health Sciences, to facilitate and ensure health services are within reach to the rural and remote regions through skilled healthcare professionals, who will be trained and given practical exposure under the guidance of expert medical professionals.

As per the World Health Organization report, by the year 2030, the global economy is projected to create around forty million new health sector jobs mostly in the middle and high-income countries and despite the anticipated growth in jobs, there is a projected shortage of fifteen million health workers to achieve the sustainable development goals in low and lower middle income countries.