Punjab Govt to launch hospital sanitation drive

With a view to promote sanitation in the hospitals, Haryana Government would launch a programme known as ‘Kayakalp’ and the best district hospital would be awarded Rs50 lakh in the State.Haryana Health Minister, Anil Vij on Friday said that this centrally sponsored scheme would soon be started in all district hospitals. An objective assessment criteria has been prepared for its success. In large States, second best hospital would be awarded Rs 20 lakh. Besides this, any other district hospital in the state, scoring more than 70 per cent score on the assessment, would be eligible to receive a cash incentive of Rs3 lakh.He said that ‘Kayakalp’ would be implemented on priority basis in order to provide high quality health services in the state and after that all, district hospitals would be linked with it.

Under this programme, all district hospitals were being directed to work according to the criteria of the Central Government. After its success, next year onwards, the ‘Kayakalp’ initiative would also be extended to sub divisional hospitals, community health centres and primary health centres in the state.

The Health Minister said that the health related criteria set by the Central Government included landscaped surroundings, clean drains, well maintained buildings, disposal of street and general waste, scientific management of biomedical waste, robust infection control practices, asepsis inside the operation theatres and labour rooms. Attaining a level of cleanliness would also require changing behaviour of patients and community, besides change in work 

culture of the hospital staff, he added.