Fitting Human Capital to the Growing Healthcare Market of India

Healthcare is one of the fastest growing business sectors of the world. The Indian healthcare market is also not lagged behind. The healthcare industry has got huge potentiality in India. Broadly, the term healthcare includes hospitals, medical equipments, clinical tests, telemedicine, medical tourism, health insurance etc. However this paper confines itself to the hospital sector alone. The paper is based on secondary informations gathered from different sources. The informations were analysed to find out the importance of the Human resources in the healthcare industry. Healthcare organisations work to provide good quality, safe and increasingly patient-centered services through the staffing, maintenance and management of high-caliber employees. In healthcare sector the human resource is considered as capital. Infact, it is the prime mover of the healthcare system. Since the human resources play a vital role in the hospital industry therefore talent development in this sector should be one of the primary skill development approaches of this country. The skill development and education provided by the private sector should also understand the need of the hour and bridge the gap between the demand for and supply of human resources to the healthcare sector.