Srinagar, Jun 01 (KNS): The State of J&K declared the awards under “Kayakalp 2018-19”- an initiative for awards to public health facilities. Kayakalp awards encourage every public health facility in the country to work towards standards of excellence to help facilities stay clean and hygienic.
In the category of District Hospitals First Position has been bagged by DH Leh for which the award money is Rs 50 Lakhs and commendation awards of Rs 3 lakh each has been awarded to DH Baramulla, DH Udhampur, DH Pulwama, DH Reasi. In the category of Community Health Centres (CHCs), Ist prize has been bagged by CHC Khaste, District Leh and first time Second prize was given to CHC Pattan District Baramulla for which the award money is Rs 15 lakh & Rs 10 lakh respectively and commendation awards of Rs 1 lakh each has been bagged by CHC Sankoo, CHC Drass (Kargil), CHC Nubra (Leh) and CHC Sopore (Baramulla). In the category of PHCs/ UPHCs, award of Rs 2 lakh each has been bagged by PHC Wandevelgam (Anantnag), PHC Sheeri (Baramulla), PHC Panikhar (Kargil), PHC Nyoma (Leh), PHC Khrew (Pulwama), PHC Sedow (Shopian), PHC Rattanpur (Samba) & UPHC Nishat (Srinagar).
K. Vijay Kumar, Advisor to Governor, J&K; Atal Dulloo, IAS, Financial Commissioner, Health & Medical Education Department and Bhupinder Kumar, Mission Director, National Health Mission, J&K have congratulated the award winning Health Facilities and appreciated the efforts of the Director Health Services Jammu / Kashmir, Chief Medical Officers, Medical Superintendents, Block Medical Officers, Incharge Medical Officers and the entire team of health facilities.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
The objectives of this award scheme is to promote cleanliness, hygiene and infection control practices in public health care facilities, to incentivise and recognise such public healthcare facilities that show exemplary performance in adhering to standard protocols of cleanliness and infection control, to inculcate a culture of ongoing assessment and peer review of performance related to hygiene, cleanliness and sanitation, to create and share sustainable practices related to improved cleanliness in public health facilities linked to positive health outcomes.
Under the Kayakalp, assessment process starts with Internal Assessment of the health facility cyclically done by the constituted facility level Infection Control and Cleanliness Committee followed by Peer Assessment, where the facilities which are scoring more than 70% in the Internal Assessment are assessed by the team of the neighbouring District/Block facility team and finally External Assessment of the facilities scoring more than 70% after Peer assessment is done by the team which is nominated by the Chairman State Quality Assurance Committee. (KNS)