The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar has bagged the second best hospital award in category-B in country for cleanliness and sanitation for the second year in a row.

It has been awarded Rs 1 crore under ‘Kayakalpa Scheme’ launched by Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. AIIMS, Bhubaneswar was selected for the award consecutively for past two years following evaluation that was based on rigorous process of internal assessment, peer assessment and external assessment through various parameters such as hospital upkeep, sanitation and hygiene, waste management, infection control and other support services.

Last year, the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar had bagged the award as the second cleanest hospital amongst category-B hospitals (less than 1,000 beds).

The hospital recorded the highest number of OPD patients among six new AIIMS as published in media, the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar stated in a letter. The hospital manages biomedical waste and sewage effectively and keeps the indoors clean and disinfected, hospital director Gitanjali Batmanabane highlights the achievements through a letter to Bhubaneswar MP Aparajita Sarangi.

According to a survey conducted by “The Week-Hansa Research Survey 2019”, published in “The Week” in its September 29 issue, about India’s best hospitals, the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar has been rated the best public hospital in Odisha and Bhubaneswar city.

Besides, it is the third best hospital in eastern zone in both private and public hospital category, the letter further stated.

The Kayakalpa Award was instituted as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on May 15, 2015 as a national initiative to recognise and felicitate public health facilities that demonstrates levels of cleanliness, hygiene and infection-control measures on promoting cleanliness in public spaces.