Lack of quality education in nursing, says RGUHS V-C

Nursing education is treading a path of self destruction due to lack of quality education in the state, said S Ramananda Shetty, vice-chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University for Health Sciences (RGUHS).

Speaking at the Gradation Day ceremony of Athena Institute of Health Sciences here on Friday, Shetty said the quality of education and quantity of admission for nursing courses was drastically coming down due to mushrooming of colleges.

During the last academic year of 15,465 seats in nursing courses only 9,645 seats were filled and remaining 5,820 seats were left vacant. Further, 59 nursing institutes could not make a single admission, he said.

Regretting over the nursing institutes ignoring providing necessary infrastructure and quality of education, he said this attitude would spell the death knell for the institutes.

Earlier, addressing the gathering, DK district in-charge minister J Krishna Palemar stressed the need for the health science institutes focusing on extending quality health services to the rural areas where a major chunk of the country's population resides. The rural masses should not be deprived of the revolution in the field of health care, he said.