Nagpur: Two urban primary health centres (UPHCs) of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) have bagged the first and second place in state-level ‘Kayakalp award’ contest under the Central government’s National Urban Health Mission (NUHM).
Indora UPHC has won first prize and Futala UPHC obtained second prize in ‘Kayakalp award’ of 2017-18. Jagnath Budhwari and Shanti Nagar UPHCs were given consolation prizes.
Officiating mayor Manisha Kothe, municipal commissioner Radhakrishnan B, additional municipal commissioner Ram Joshi, chairman of NMC health consultative committee Virendra Kukreja and other officials presented cash prizes and awards to doctors and staff of the four UPHCs at a programme held on Wednesday.
Under NUHM, the NMC in association with Tata Trusts had developed 26 UPHCs like private clinics. Tata Trusts had given training to staff and facilitated various types of materials for all UPHCs.
Tata Trusts even developed state-of-the-art pathology laboratory at these UPHCs.
Radhakrishnan said NMC officials and staff should ensure all 26 UPHCs win prizes in the next round of contest. He said a large number of UPHCs across the state had participated in the contest.