Home nursing is gaining popularity in Visakhapatnam with 100-odd service providers functioning across the city, employing over 1,000 nursing attendants.
Timely delivery of medicines to those who hire them constitutes about 72% of the services they provide. This is followed bathing (59.1%), dressing (47.4%) and feeding (45.7%), according to a study titled ‘Home Care Nursing Attendants in Greater Visakhapatnam.’
Most of those who hire home nurses are the sick; physically challenged; pregnant women; elderly individuals; and those who are alone because their children live away or are settled abroad. About 66% of the service takers are women.
