India ranks only second after the Philippines in the number of nurses working overseas – sending nurses to top destinations of UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UK.
Nurses are the backbone of our healthcare industry. They have also proved to be the best in the world during the Covid crisis, said Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar, union minister of state for health
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It’s like an unspoken caste system. Signs of it can be seen littered casually across our everyday landscape a clue was there just this week, in a Delhi government communique. News so routine that it disturbs nothing, angers no one, only confirms the order of things. But Urmila Bhadoria had encountered it back in the summer of 1978 itself, when she was still only at the cusp of it all. It came to her like a faint stigma, almost. Like an odour, it had arrived even before the real thing.