District Hospital (DH) Leh has bagged the first position and won award money of Rs 50 lakh under the “Kayakalp Awards 2018-19.”
“Kayakalp Awards” encourage every public health facility inthe country to work towards standards of excellence to help facilities stayclean and hygienic.
District Hospital Baramulla, DH Udhampur, DH Pulwama, DHReasi have won commendation awards of Rs 3 lakh each.
In the category of Community Health Centres (CHCs), again itwas CHC Khaste in district Leh that bagged the prize with award money of Rs 15lakh was bagged by. While as the second prize was awarded to CHC Pattan,District Baramulla who was awarded the money of Rs 10 lakh.
Commendation awards of Rs 1 lakh each was given to CHCSankoo, CHC Drass (Kargil), CHC Nubra (Leh) and CHC Sopore (Baramulla).
In the category of PHCs/ UPHCs, an award of Rs 2 lakh eachhas been bagged by PHC Wandevelgam (Anantnag), PHC Sheeri (Baramulla), PHCPanikhar (Kargil), PHC Nyoma (Leh), PHC Khrew (Pulwama), PHC Sedow (Shopian),PHC Rattanpur (Samba) & UPHC Nishat (Srinagar).
Advisor to Governor K. Vijay Kumar, Financial Commissioner,Health & Medical Education Atal Dulloo, and Mission Director NHM Bhupinder Kumar have congratulated theaward-winning Health Facilities and appreciated the efforts of the DirectorHealth Services Jammu / Kashmir, Chief Medical Officers, MedicalSuperintendents, Block Medical Officers, Incharge Medical Officers and theentire team of health facilities.
The objectives of this the award scheme is to promotecleanliness, hygiene and infection control practices in public health carefacilities, to incentivize and recognize such public healthcare facilities thatshow exemplary performance in adhering to standard protocols of cleanliness andinfection control, to inculcate a culture of ongoing assessment and peer reviewof performance related to hygiene, cleanliness and sanitation, to create andshare sustainable practices related to improved cleanliness in public healthfacilities linked to positive health outcomes.
Under the Kayakalp, the assessment process starts with aninternal assessment of the health facility cyclically done by the constitutedfacility level Infection Control and Cleanliness Committee followed by PeerAssessment, where the facilities which are scoring more than 70% in theInternal Assessment are assessed by the team of the neighbouring District/Blockfacility team and finally External Assessment of the facilities scoring morethan 70% after Peer assessment is done by the team which is nominated by theChairman State Quality Assurance Committee.