Lucknow, 23 December (IANS). Yogi government is continuously trying to provide quality treatment to the patients in health units. In such a situation, on the instructions of CM Yogi, preparations are going on in full swing to get National Quality Assurance Standard (NQUAS) certificate from the district hospital to ‘Ayushman Arogya Mandir’.
Apart from this, health units are also being prepared for Kayakalp Award. In this sequence, the Mission Director of the National Health Mission has given instructions to conduct external assessment of 122 Community Health Centers (CHC) as soon as possible.
Mission Director Dr. Pinky Joval said that as per the intention of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, health units are being connected with technology to make the state ‘Uttam Pradesh’.
In this sequence, in a letter issued to all the Additional Directors and Chief Medical Officers of the state, Mission Director Dr. Pinky Jovel has instructed that external assessment of all these health units should be done between 24th and 29th December. Three assessors and assessment dates have been fixed for each health unit.
According to the letter, seven each in Kanpur and Jaunpur, six each in Bareilly and Siddharthnagar, five each in Kanpur Dehat and Shahjahanpur, four each in Lucknow, Barabanki, Varanasi, Basti, Sant Kabirnagar, Agra, Bulandshahr, Bhadohi and Mathura. Fatehpur, Kaushambi, Pratapgarh, Sambhal, Pilibhit, Baghpat, GB Nagar, Saharanpur, External assessment is to be done in three Community Health Centers (CHCs) each in Firozabad, Etah, Aligarh, Ambedkar Nagar, Mirzapur and Unnao, two each in Amethi, Auraiya, Hathras, and one each in Lakhimpur Kheri, Kasganj, Prayagraj.
Kayakalp Award is given on fulfilling these standards:-
• Better medical facilities
• Cleanliness, hygiene in health center
• Better waste management and infection control methods.
–IANS
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