Preparing For Future Jobs In Healthcare

Amol Naikawadi,Joint – Managing Director, Indus Health Plus speaks about how healthcare organisations will need to change their HR practices in these changing times.

The healthcare job market is currently under-going an immense transformation and would continue to do so in the near future. To curb the increasing burden of NCDs, and to change the direction of healthcare from curative to preventive, the government is bringing in new schemes in health and wellness, which in turn is increasing hiring in all verticals across healthcare and wellness. The demand for professionals will especially increase in the Tier 2 & 3 cities as well as non-corporate hospitals.

As the government is investing and sponsoring wellness and healthcare delivery across all verticals, from diagnostics to treatment, a lot of non-medico jobs will also increase. Earlier, only medicos and paramedics were considered to be a part of healthcare. The trend has already started moving on a new curve, where the different support functions are strongly catalysing the delivery of health facilities. Apart from speciality doctors, nurses, technicians, radiologists, there will be increased hiring in the marketing, IT, F&B and supply chain functions too.