Raipur, 09 Feb. An expert team by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare visited the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur for the Kayakalp prize from 08 to 09 Feb.
Prof. (Dr.) Nitin M. Nagarkar, Director connected with the team through online mode from Bhopal and briefed them on major facilities provided to COVID-19 patients and critical patients. ‘We are trying to adopt best practices for patients care.
We will continue to excel in health care and research, he added. Dr. Ramesh Chandrakar, Deputy Medical Superintendent, provided insightful information on AIIMS to the team.
The team visited the Bio-medical waste department, registration counters, breastfeeding room, blood sample collection facility, NICU, and labor room. The team was impressed with the facilities provided at Trauma and praised record-keeping practices at the Medical Record Department. The team also visited Drug Store and Operation Theater, interacted with the patients, and took their feedback on different services.
Nodal Officer Dr. Mrithunjay Rathore accompanied the team. The team includes Prof. Pushpanjali Swain, Dr. Ishant Kumar, and Dr. Gaurav Kumar Jha from the Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi.
To promote cleanliness, hygiene, and infection control practices in different AIIMS, MoHFW, the Government of India introduced Kayakalp Scheme to incentivize and recognize them.
Under the scheme, all newly established AIIMS comes under Category-B and if selected, they will get the first prize of three crores, second prize of one crore, or third prize of 50 Lakh each. In 2021 AIIMS Raipur got the third prize in the Category.
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