PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2009 ID-23158
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Rally For United Struggle For Improved Health Facilities on Campus! Resist Administrative Dilly-dallying And Perennial Ploys to Deny Its Responsibility and Accountability! .
JNUSU congratulates the student community for the massive participation in today's protest demonstration for improved health facilities in JNU. The massive anger at administrative insensitivity on the crucial issue of providing basic health care to the JNU community, which consists of more than 10,000 students, teachers and karamcharis, was palpable. In the past week, there have been two deaths in JNU due to the lack of adequate health facilities and infrastructure. Even after this tragedy hit JNU, not a single member of the JNU administration bothered to express any concern. No one from the VC's team attended the condolence meeting organized after Aishwary's death. Instead of taking immediate steps to rectify the reasons for the tragedy, the VC has spent his time telling the media that he is waiting for information from "official" sources! This level of insensitivity is shocking and shameful, to say the least. At the protest demonstration today, our VC, who for once bothered to talk directly to the students, once again shocked the student community by suggesting the obvious that asthmatic students should carry their inhalers with them! May we remind our esteemed Vice Chancellor that the grave issue at stake is a virtual breakdown of JNU's minimum health and safety mechanism, which the administration is duty-bound to provide in this residential campus. We strongly demand of our VC that neither he nor his administration trivialize the urgency and the administration's responsibility on this count. After the protest demonstration, when JNUSU representatives went to meet officials from the administration, they once again brought out their excuse of "lack of funds" from UGC. JNUSU very strongly put forth our long-standing demands regarding better health facilities and infrastructure. We have given our ultimatum that any dilly-dallying on this crucial issue, any excuses of lack of funds, will not be tolerated by the JNU student community. .
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In response to our demands, the administration has agreed to hire a new fully-equipped ambulance within 10 days, with doctors, paramedics and adequate infrastructure. JNUSU has told the administration that the one ambulance is not sufficient for a campus of JNU's size. We have demanded two fully-equipped ambulances to be hired immediately. In response to this demand, the administration has agreed to "explore" the possibilities. .
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On our demand for a 24x7 health centre, the administration responded by claiming that JNU does not have the required funds. They have also informed the JNUSU that they will be holding a meeting tomorrow to look into the options of expanding the timings of the health centre by reshuffling the existing doctors. .
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Improved health facilities has been a persistent demand from JNUSU: we have been demanding 24x7 health facilities, better equipped ambulances, more doctors and better infrastructure for a long time now. It is high time that the entire JNU community, including students, teachers and karamcharis come together to demand that the JNU administration immediately stop its policy of propping up excuses. This is a time of broad unity and determined struggle, where a massive pressure will have to be built on the JNU administration. Any attempts at unilateralism and one-upmanship can only benefit this .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2009 ID-23158
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Rally For United Struggle For Improved Health Facilities on Campus! Resist Administrative Dilly-dallying And Perennial Ploys to Deny Its Responsibility and Accountability! .
JNUSU congratulates the student community for the massive participation in today's protest demonstration for improved health facilities in JNU. The massive anger at administrative insensitivity on the crucial issue of providing basic health care to the JNU community, which consists of more than 10,000 students, teachers and karamcharis, was palpable. In the past week, there have been two deaths in JNU due to the lack of adequate health facilities and infrastructure. Even after this tragedy hit JNU, not a single member of the JNU administration bothered to express any concern. No one from the VC's team attended the condolence meeting organized after Aishwary's death. Instead of taking immediate steps to rectify the reasons for the tragedy, the VC has spent his time telling the media that he is waiting for information from "official" sources! This level of insensitivity is shocking and shameful, to say the least. At the protest demonstration today, our VC, who for once bothered to talk directly to the students, once again shocked the student community by suggesting the obvious that asthmatic students should carry their inhalers with them! May we remind our esteemed Vice Chancellor that the grave issue at stake is a virtual breakdown of JNU's minimum health and safety mechanism, which the administration is duty-bound to provide in this residential campus. We strongly demand of our VC that neither he nor his administration trivialize the urgency and the administration's responsibility on this count. After the protest demonstration, when JNUSU representatives went to meet officials from the administration, they once again brought out their excuse of "lack of funds" from UGC. JNUSU very strongly put forth our long-standing demands regarding better health facilities and infrastructure. We have given our ultimatum that any dilly-dallying on this crucial issue, any excuses of lack of funds, will not be tolerated by the JNU student community. .
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In response to our demands, the administration has agreed to hire a new fully-equipped ambulance within 10 days, with doctors, paramedics and adequate infrastructure. JNUSU has told the administration that the one ambulance is not sufficient for a campus of JNU's size. We have demanded two fully-equipped ambulances to be hired immediately. In response to this demand, the administration has agreed to "explore" the possibilities. .
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On our demand for a 24x7 health centre, the administration responded by claiming that JNU does not have the required funds. They have also informed the JNUSU that they will be holding a meeting tomorrow to look into the options of expanding the timings of the health centre by reshuffling the existing doctors. .
.
.
Improved health facilities has been a persistent demand from JNUSU: we have been demanding 24x7 health facilities, better equipped ambulances, more doctors and better infrastructure for a long time now. It is high time that the entire JNU community, including students, teachers and karamcharis come together to demand that the JNU administration immediately stop its policy of propping up excuses. This is a time of broad unity and determined struggle, where a massive pressure will have to be built on the JNU administration. Any attempts at unilateralism and one-upmanship can only benefit this .
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