Now, PGIMS nursing college to admit male candidates too

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, October 9

Here’s some good news for the male students who wish to pursue a course in nursing.

The PGIMS nursing college, which used to admit only female students till now, will admit male students as well from the coming academic session.

A proposal to this effect has been approved by the authorities of Pt Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences (UHS), Rohtak.

Santosh Hooda, Principal, College of Nursing, maintained that the move would benefit the unemployed youth as well as patients.

“It will create more employment opportunities for the boys and make the services of trained male nurses available to the patients,” she stated.

Ashok Yadav, the president of the PGIMS Nurses Association, has welcomed the move.

He said the association had been demanding that the in-service male nurses be allowed admission to Post-Basic BSc and MSc (Nursing) courses at the college.

As per the college authorities, apart from the said courses, the male candidates would also be admitted to Nurse Practitioner in Critical Care (NPCC) course.

“Forty per cent seats of the said courses would be reserved for the in-service candidates working at the PGIMS as well as the state Health facilities,” said Hooda.