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Public Private Partnership for Nursing Training in Punjab

last updated Sep 27, 2011

Overview

Implementing organization: 
College of Nursing, Fatima Memorial Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
Implementation Partner(s): 
Health Department, Government of Punjab
Legal Status: 
Public-private partnership
Year Launched: 
2007
Stage: 
Short-term project
Income Level of Target Population: 
All income levels

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Government
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Donor

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
10-49
Other Measures of Scale: 
The project aims to provide basic nursing diplomas to 1820 nurses, post basic specialization to 1300 nurses and nursing degrees to 650 students in the next ten years.
Summary: 

The project is designed to fill the missing gaps in availability of trained and professionally accredited nurses in line with the overall objectives of improving health service delivery for citizens in Punjab.

Key program components: 

The project is designed to meet the short fall of 15,789 nurses in Punjab through the implementation of a General Nursing Diploma Program. The primary goal of the project is to aid the provision of quality healthcare to patients across Punjab's public and private sector by creating a pool of well-trained and accredited nurses. The project employs the public private partnership model whereby the provincial government is providing resources to the Fatima Memorial Hospital (College of Nursing), a renowned private sector nursing school, in order to fill the capacity gaps within the health service delivery system in the province.

Since 2007, an equivalent of 740 million Pakistani Rupees (close to US $9 million) has been provided by provincial government for the purpose of training various categories of nurses.

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