The Indian healthcare industry is one of the greatly expanding sectors and has grown rapidly and with the emergence of deadly Covid pandemic, importance of the healthcare sector has increased manifold. Also, due to a recent forecast, this industry will cross a revenue generation of US$ 280 billion by 2020. Apart from this, the country’s conventional curing operations and practices along with latest healthcare services and facilities bring people from all over the world to here.

And with the ever expanding and growing healthcare sector, the demand for non–medical skilled professionals to take care of daily administrative tasks and operations in an organization has increased to a large extent. It is worth to be noted that earlier these managerial tasks were taken care of by senior Doctors and fell outside the scope of their expertise and duties. Hence, with the rapidly transforming healthcare sector, the requirement of qualified and competent professionals having expertise in various aspects of the industry is on boom.

Requirement for skillful professional and workforce

An industry needs assistance and support from different domains, when it expands and grows and Healthcare being an extremely prevalent service is not excluded from this list. Hence the demand for skillful, innovative work-force has increased as per evolving requirements and the dynamics of the end users and all this in return compel institutions to draft such courses that can translate necessities into reality.

So students actually have many options in place, and they can either pursue an MBA in relevant specialization in healthcare or do a Degree course in Hospital Management. And if we talk about the benefits and future scope here, a Degree in Travel and Tourism will open up doors for jobs in the medical tourism sector in India as it is becoming a global center for tourism. Similarly a Degree in Optometry and Pharmacy offers several amazing roles to individuals pursuing it because healthcare is a lot more than just Doctors and Nurses.

Opening wedges into the Industry

Cited below are some of the amazing sectors Graduates and working professionals can join post finishing their respective healthcare course.

Public/Private Hospitals: As we know that Hospitals operates 24*7 to serve the best quality healthcare services and facilities to students and for every process to work seamlessly, expert individuals and top-notch managers are needed who have excellent interpersonal skills, can supervise things without any gaps, ensure efficient human resource management, take care of billing, finances and technology related decisions, use IT management in best possible way and can work under a given budget and multiple constraints and deliver services on time.

Medical Tourism: India is one of the top 3 stopovers for medical tourism in the Asian continent and what brings more foreigners here is obviously the top-notch healthcare infrastructure, highly qualified doctors and last but not the least lower cost of treatment and amazing post treatment recovery and rehabilitation centers acts as a cherry on the cake. And over the years, domestic Indian medicinal and therapeutic practices have made overseas people a huge fan of India and people now are moving here to use alternative treatment methods such as Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy. Hence, healing centers, Ayurvedic spa resorts followed by yoga and meditation retreats are spreading exponentially and serving foreigners coming to them. And due to the same reason, again Agencies or organizations need individuals who can assist them in providing end-to-end solutions to people who visit India to avail best medical facilities.

Healthcare Start-ups: As we all know that innovation is the key for any business and in today’s digital world people want to use very service from the comfort of their home then be it related to offering custom indoor healthcare services which contain regular health checkups, caregivers for the elderly, nursing at home or disposing end-t-end treatment arranging at any hospital etc. And all thanks goes to the government and people who proactively took initiatives to make this a reality and we must say that establishment and growth of healthcare start-ups and our enhanced economy is nothing but the combined effort of everyone involved in this sector. And to be honest, these things have completely transformed the Indian healthcare structure by creating amazing employment opportunities for the Ideapreneurs and implementers.

Health Insurance Companies: With insurance being a need in today’s unpredictable world, healthcare insurance firms and organizations are expanding day by day which in return generate wonderful career options and opportunities for individuals who aspire to work in this field. And if we talk about the daily duties of professionals working in this domain, it includes a thorough knowledge and understanding of how this sector works and essentials when it comes to reimbursing insurance claims.

Pharmaceutical Companies: By 2021, India will be featured among the top 3 pharmaceutical markets in the world. And recently the Government of India has launched the ‘Pharma Vision 2020’ with an objective to make India a world leader in end-to-end drug manufacturing. Hence, neither the domestic or foreign companies want to leave any stone unturned so that they can explore and utilize all the potential of this wonderful industry.And students after pursuing BBA course in Hospital Management can work as a Medical Representative and do the technical task of durg making.

And the thing which makes it an amazing industry to work with is that the healthcare industry is recession free and when on one hand, financial instabilities can change people’s lifestyle, they never compromise when it comes to availing medical treatment even if it comes with more cost and also because they have become more aware than ever about health related issues. So there remains little doubt in the fact that businesses involved in this domain don’t receive a positive growth rate on a regular basis. And in a country like India, where a humongous amount of people live together, the healthcare industry will only evolve and grow as Medical needs will only augment, never diminish.

Now one question will naturally come to your mind: which institute is best to pursue a Degree course before joining the healthcare sector as a professional. So here is some good news for you, NSHM offers a full time 3 year BBA course in Hospital Management at Undergraduate level to ambitious youths and individuals who want to make a thriving career in the healthcare domain. 

And the program is a best fit and worth pursuing for them because it educates them about administration, supervision and management of resources in health care industry and health care programs and inculcate required skills in them to make them capable of providing clinical support services, managing daily operations and systems efficiently and managing good relationship with customers. Apart from this, the course also teaches them about the public relations, advocacy and business management and development aspects. 

And then can even work to upgrade process related to Registration, Billing, Patient Admission, Discharge, Insurance, Floor management, Reporting, life support, ambulatory services, facility emergencies, international admissions, waste management, infection control, hygiene & safety, audit, quality accreditations, workflow management and hospital automation etc. Also the only eligibility to enroll in this course is that the aspirant must have passed 10+2 in any stream but have good knowledge of the English language. Last but not the least, post finishing this course, graduates can join sectors like Hospital Operations, NGO’s– Health Project Management, Healthcare Consultancy Planning & Designing Hospitals, Hospital Information System, Healthcare Insurance, Medical Tourism and Tele-Medicine.