23-01-2021 | 15:03 PM
Kayakalp awards
Context
Recently the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has conferred 5th National Kayakalp awards to Public and Private Health Facilities for the highest standards of Sanitation and Hygiene.
Key Highlights
On 15 May 2015, Government of India launched a National Initiative ‘Kayakalp’ to ensure hygiene, sanitation and cleanliness in Public Health Facilities in India.
Those District Hospitals, Sub-divisional hospitals, Community Health Centres, Primary Health Centres and Health & Wellness Centres in the public healthcare system that have achieved high standards of cleanliness, hygiene and infection control were recognised and felicitated with awards.
Factors considered to present Kayakalp Awards are Waste Management, Hospital Upkeep, Sanitation and Hygiene, Infection Control, hygiene promotion, support services and beyond hospital boundary.
The 2nd prize under the Kayakalp Awards scheme was awarded to the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER). JIPMER received the prize under the Group A Central facilities category, hospitals having more than thousand beds. It had earlier been ranked second in 2018-19 and third in 2017-18.
For the 3rd consecutive time, AIIMS Bhubaneswar has received the best central government hospital under Category B of the Kayakalp Awards for cleanliness. Earlier, it had received the award in 2018 and 2019 becoming the second cleanest hospital in the country.
The Rairangpur Sub Divisional Hospital of Mayurbhanj district was felicitated as the best Sub-divisional hospital community health centre category. For the fourth time in a row, the award was given to Rani Durgavati Hospital.
Objectives
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 based on sanitation, hygiene, and infection.
The scheme aims to create and share sustainable practices related to improved cleanliness in public health facilities linked to positive health outcomes
It shares and creates sustainable practices related to improving cleanliness in public health facilities.
