Prognosis
Indian State With First-World Standards to Push Export of Nurses
- Kerala accounts for about 20% of inward remittances to India
- Nursing institutes have more than doubled in Kerala, WHO says
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Kerala, the southern Indian state with development indicators comparable to the first world, will invest in training and exporting health workers with the aim of capitalizing on their remittances, its Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said.
Countries have “realized that lack of investment in public health system can, in a pandemic time, be totally debilitating to the national economy,” Isaac said in a telephone interview. “There will be demand for Kerala nurses and paramedics all over the globe.”