Kayakalp Awards

Question: The Kayakalp Awards has been given by Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan to Private and Public Health facilities for maintaining high standards of:
(a) Efficiency
(b) Sanitation and hygiene
(c) Large admission of patients
(d) None of the above
Answer: (b)
Related facts:

  • Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare gave the Kayakalp Awards to the public and private health facilities during the national felicitation ceremony of Kayakalp awardees (2018-19) for their work in maintaining high standards of sanitation and hygiene.
  • Kayakalp has played a pivotal role in reinstating and reconfirming trust and confidence of the community in public health facilities.
  • At the function, the Health Ministers released the Kayakalp Coffee Table book documenting the success journeys of the award winning health facilities, and also gave away the awards to the winners under various categories.

The Awards:

  • Under the Central Government Hospitals A category, the first prize of Rs. 3 crore was given to the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi.
  • JIPMER, Puducherry was judged as the runner-up in this category with Rs. 1.5 crore prize money, and Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh and Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi won the Commendation Award of Rs. 50 Lakh each.
  • In the group B category, the winner was VBCH, Silvassa winning Rs. 2 crore, with AIIMS Bhubaneswar as the runner-up winning Rs. 1 crore.
  • NEIGRIHMS, Shillong, LGBRIMH, Tezpur and AIIMS, Bhopal each won Rs. 50 lakhs as Commendation Award.
  • In the current year, for the holistic and comprehensive improvement across the health sector, the Kayakalp scheme was extended to private sector health facilities; 11 private health facilities were felicitated at the event.

Kayakalp Awards:

  • The Kayakalp Award was instituted as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on 15th May 2015 as a national initiative to recognize and felicitate public health facilities that demonstrate high levels of cleanliness, hygiene and infection control measure on promoting cleanliness in public spaces.
  • Over the period, the number of facilities under Kayakalp rose from 750 health facilities in 2015-16 to more than 26000 facilities in 2018-19.

Links:
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1587869