Certify AYUSH practitioners as mid-level care providers

Pending. The promise requires a duly recognised bridge course through which AYUSH practitioners are trained and certified to serve as mid-level care providers, particularly for community health services. Equivalent certification under another recognised course title would count if it provided the same competencies and enabled AYUSH practitioners to serve in the promised role. However, no approved source found confirms notification of a Goa bridge course, approval by a recognised university or regulatory authority, admission or completion of AYUSH-practitioner batches, issuance of certificates, or deployment of certified AYUSH practitioners as Community Health Officers or equivalent mid-level providers. A March 2025 NHM Goa recruitment notice advertised 49 Community Health Officer posts but required B.Sc. Nursing with an integrated Mid-Level Health Provider course and Goa Nursing Council registration. AYUSH practitioners were not included in that recruitment pathway. Recruitment of BAMS or BHMS graduates for other public-health posts does not fulfil the separate bridge-course and mid-level-provider commitment. Status pending.