Kayakalp Awards : AIIMS Delhi wins Rs 5 crore for cleanliness

 AIIMS Delhi gets first prize, NEIGRIHMS second, PGI Third

New Delhi: Premier health institute AIIMS, New Delhi, has won the first prize, and a cash reward of Rs 5 crore, for maintaining high standards of sanitation and hygiene under the Governments Kayakalp awards.

AIIMS was followed by North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong, which got a cash prize of Rs 3 crore.

Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, received the third prize of Rs 1 crore.

Commendation awards of Rs 50 lakh each were given to AIIMS, Raipur, AIIMS, Jodhpur and National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (NITRD), Delhi, by Union Health Minister J P Nadda.

"We want to change the image of the public health facilities. The thrust of Kayakalp is to inculcate culture of cleanliness for gaining the trust and confidence of community in these facilities," Nadda said.

Referring to the ICT-based application MeraAspataal (My Hospital) that captures patients feedback about their experience in the health facilities on the services that they received or sought to receive, Nadda said the Ministry is seeking the feedback of people digitally to improve the quality of services at the health centres.

"Patient satisfaction is the ultimate test for assessing quality of services provided by a healthcare facility and we are now making a paradigm shift by seeking their views on quality of experience in a public healthcare facility.

"This will help us improving the experience of people at a health facility," he said.

Nadda also felicitated the District Hospitals, PHCs and CHCs for winning the awards in their respective states and union territory.