CHC Katra Gets 1st , CHC Pattan 2nd Prize In Category Of CHCs
Srinagar : The J&K government on Tuesday declared awards under “Kayakalp 2020-21”- 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.
While giving details, Yasin Choudhary (IAS), Mission Director NHM, J&K informed that in the category of District Hospitals First Position has been bagged by District Hospital Udhampur for which the award money is Rs 50 Lakhs and commendation awards of Rs 3 lakh has been awarded to District Hospital Reasi. In the category of Community Health Centres (CHCs), Ist prize has been bagged by CHC Katra, Reasi and Second prize by CHC Pattan, Baramulla for which the award money is Rs 15 lakh & Rs 10 lakh respectively.
Atal Dulloo (IAS), Additional Chief Secretary, Health & Medical Education Department and Yasin Choudhary, IAS Mission Director, National Health Mission, J&K 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 for their achievement.
Also commendation awards of Rs 1 lakh each has been bagged by CHC Uri(Baramulla), CHC Dooru (Anantnag), CHC Kupwara, CHC Sopore (Baramulla), CHC Shangus (Anantnag), CHC Pampore (Pulwama), CHC Ramgarh (Samba), CHC Ramnagar (Udhampur), CHC Sunderbani(Rajouri), CHC Chennani (Udhampur).
In the category of Primary Health Centers & Urban Primary Health Centers ( PHCs/ UPHCs), award of Rs 2 lakh each has been bagged by PHC Achabal (Anantnag), PHC Sheeri (Baramulla), PHC Kakapora (Pulwama), PHC Sedow (Shopian), PHC Buddhi (Kathua), PHC Ransoo (Reasi), PHC Sumb (Samba), PHC Tikri (Udhampur) ,UPHC Nishat (Srinagar), UPHC Old Town (Baramulla), UPHC Shastri Nagar (Jammu) and UPHC Krishna Colony (Kathua).
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, MD NHM, J&K added.
It is pertinent to mention here that under 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.(GNS)
