Kayakalp Awards: AIIMS Bhubaneshwar ranks Best Central Govt Hospital
Total Views | 184
New Delhi, Jan 15: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has recently presented the Kayakalp awards for the year 2019-20. The Kayakalp Awards are presented by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare annually to the health facilities with the highest standards of sanitation and hygiene. Waste Management, Hospital Upkeep, Sanitation and Hygiene, Infection Control, hygiene promotion, support services and beyond hospital boundary are the factors considered during the Kayakalp awards.
AIIMS Bhubaneswar has received the best central government hospital under Category B of the Kayakalp Awards for cleanliness for the third consecutive time. Earlier, it had received the award in 2018 and 2019 becoming the second cleanliest hospital in the country. Category B holds hospitals with less than thousand beds.
The Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) was awarded the second prize under the Kayakalp Awards scheme. JIPMER received the prize under the Group A Central facilities category, hospitals having more than thousand beds. Earlier, it had received second place in 2018-19 and third place in 2017-18.
The Rairangpur Sub Divisional Hospital of Mayurbhanj district was felicitated as the best Sub-divisional hospital community health centre category. Rani Durgavati Hospital received the award for the fourth time consecutively.
The Kayakalp Award Scheme was launched in 2015. The scheme aims to incentivize public health care facilities that show high performance in following protocols, infection control, cleanliness and sanitation. It inculcates a culture of peer review of performance related to sanitation, hygiene, infection control. It shares and create sustainable practices related to improving cleanliness in public health facilities.
The Swachh Swasth Sarvatra scheme was launched in 2016, with the objective to strengthen Community Health Centres in open defecation blocks, especially in the region of those Public Health Centres or hospitals that have received the Kayakalp Awards.
Related News
