Background

The Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan launched by the Prime Minister on 2nd October 2014, focuses on promoting cleanliness in public space. Cleanliness and hygiene in hospital are critical to preventing infections and also provide patients with a positive experience and encourages moulding behavior related to clean environment..

Objectives

1. To promote cleanliness, hygiene and Infection Control Practices in public Health Care Facilities.
2. To incentivize and recognize such public healthcare facilities that show exemplary performance in adhering to standard protocols of cleanliness and infection control.
3. To inculcate a culture of ongoing assessment and peer review of performance related to hygiene, cleanliness and sanitation.
4. To create and share sustainable practices related to improved cleanliness in public health facilities linked to positive health outcomes.

Scope

Based on scoring, using a specific standard protocol administered by an external Assessor Team, the awards would be distributed as follows: Best two District Hospitals in each state (Best District hospital in small states). Best two Community Health Centres/Sub District Hospitals (limited to one in small states). One Primary Health Centre in every district Each facility will receive a cash award with a citation.

Awards Criteria

The awards would be distributed based on the performance of the facility on the following parameters.
I. Hospital/Facility Upkeep
II. Sanitation and hygiene
III. Waste Management
IV. Infection control.
V. Support Services
VI. Hygiene Promotion
Score card for the award and tools for the facility assessment are given in the Annexure ‘I’ and Annexure ‘II’ respectively.

Criteria for application to the Awards Scheme

Following are the prerequisites for applying for an award-
1. Constituted a Cleanliness and Infection Control Committee.
2. Instituted a mechanism of periodic internal assessment/peer assessment based on defined criteria
3. Achieved at least 70% score in the criteria during the peer assessment process

Selection of facilities

1. The awards for individual public health facility will be given to those that score the highest based on a set of defined criteria. There will be three sub categories :
A) Best District Hospitals -In every state the two top ranked district hospitals will receive an award. The first and second best district hospital level facilities will receive cash award of Rs Fifty and Rs. Twenty Lakhs respectively. For small states only the first ranking facility in this category will be awarded.
B) Best CHC/SDH Award - In every state, the top two ranked CHCs / SDHs will receive an award. The first and second ranked CHCs/ SDHs will receive cash awards of Rs. Fifteen and Ten Lakhs respectively. For small states there will be only one award for the best facility in this category.
B) Best PHC Award -In every district, the best PHC (24x7) will receive a cash award of Rs. Two Lakhs.
In order to motivate, sustain and improve performance in facilities that score over 70%, but do not make it to the list of top two/one in a particular year, a Certificate of Commendation plus cash award would be given as follows:.
a) District Hospital Rs. 300,000
b) CHC / SDH Rs. 100,000
c) Primary Health centres Rs. 50,000

Work accomplished In Kayakalp Rajasthan

Kayakalp

The Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan launched by the Prime Minister on 2nd October 2014, focuses on promoting cleanliness in public space. Cleanliness and hygiene in hospital are critical to preventing infections and also provide patients with a positive experience and encourages moulding behavior related to clean environment
The awards for individual public health facility will be given to those that score the highest based on a set of defined criteria. The first best district hospital will receive cash award of Rs. 50 lakhs and 2nd best district hospital will receive Rs. 20 lakhs respectively and district hospital achieving 70 % score in the criteria would be given Rs. 3 lakhs. At the beginning of the year 2015 -16, awards will be given to only District Hospital. The three steps in the programme are:
1. Internal Assessment
2. Peer Assessment
3. External Assessment
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