4th National Seminar

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 India boasts as one of a few developing nations readily supporting new prevention programs when introduced in World Health Assembly. However back home it is true that allocation for health in budget is just about 1% of annual GDP. That means we are also one among those last nations where domestic health is of low priority to the Government. Our large population is off course a major reason for over stretched health services in private and public health facilities. Although we have huge number of medical & nursing practitioners unequal distribution has deprived proper health facilities for rural populations. Many other reasons including poverty, overcrowding and lack of health education makes the skin diseases a common illness in our country side and urban slums. Unfortunately the most of dermatology services in India are above the reach of these vulnerable populations. Further we have only five to six thousand dermatologists and they are mostly concentrated in urban areas having poor connectivity to villages.

It is important for health professionals working in country as diverse as India to understand our cultural diversity to provide any successful and meaningful interactions. Unless we approach health issues within this cultural framework, no progress will be made to control the huge burden of skin diseases in India. This brings us to the issue of who is well equipped to provide the required health education and basic skin care to our large rural population. Undoubtedly they are our nurses and health workers in the field (e.g. Asha).

When developing dermatology nursing in India it should not confine to only allopathic skin care. There are as many as 106 medical systems in India and each have something to offer for skin care. We have already proved with evidence in lymphatic filariasis that other traditional systems of skin care are as good as allopathic care. Hence this seminar will try to emphasis on introducing the dermatology nursing in an integrative way to our nurses and health workers.  We plan to evaluate present nursing curriculum and develop a frame work for its training. This is also likely to motivate the nurses to do skin care research in India. Because most of wound care, skin care, dermatology procedures, counseling about skin diseases have partially developed as an area for nurses their involvement to provide better services to patients with skin diseases is essential

Your kind participation will help to create awareness among nursing faculty, doctors and health workers on integrative dermatology nursing and job opportunities in this discipline.