Quess Corp has announced the launch of its new healthcare vertical to address the need of healthcare personnel.

It has signed an MoU with the Association of Healthcare Providers (India) (AHPI), a not for profit body of healthcare providers, to formalise the training and staffing services for healthcare professionals and create a talent marketplace for private and public healthcare institutions.

It aims to provide trained healthcare manpower, home care solutions, and end-to-end hospital management services by identifying, training & upskilling healthcare professionals through a network of accredited medical training institutes, enabling quick & on-demand deployment.

It also proposes a hire-train-deploy model, besides building a digital pool of highly skilled, experienced, ready-to-hire doctors across India.

The collaboration will also enable corporates to set up safer workspaces with adequate medical facilities and to train candidates with endorsements from reputed domestic and international accreditations. Through this alliance, Quess Corp and AHPI plan to jointly work towards industry advocacy in critical areas of staffing and healthcare manpower management.

Guruprasad Srinivasan, chief operating officer-India region, Quess Corp, said, “The healthcare industry in India has witnessed increasing staffing demands since the advent of the pandemic. There are nearly 600 investment opportunities worth US $ 32 billion in the hospitality/medical infrastructure sub-sector on Indian Investment Grid (IIG). We look forward to effectively bridging the talent gap and challenges in the Indian healthcare infrastructure, which was largely brought to the fore during the pandemic.”

Dr Naresh Shetty, president, Quess Healthcare said, “In India, the healthcare segment faces dismaying challenges with an acute shortage of skilled manpower to the tune of six million paramedics today. Through tech-enabled skilling and access to a talent pool of trained professionals, we want to empower healthcare providers to cater to a wide public reach while providing access to quality healthcare for all.”

Dr. Alex Thomas, president of AHPI said, “Having been associated with both organisations for many years, I am confident that the synergy of this collaboration (Quess’s wide reach, in-depth domain knowledge and breadth of capabilities, along with the credibility and track record that AHPI has in the Healthcare sector) would greatly help in attaining the objective of providing affordable, accessible quality care to all our citizens particularly through empowerment, training and placement of healthcare professionals and workers.”