The rector prefigures reparatory actions “because they are primarily university students, with the social responsibility that this implies, and especially aspiring doctors, and because even this hurts the enormous effort being made by health personnel and many of our students who participate of hundreds of activities to face the pandemic”.
While, From the Faculty of Medical Sciences they communicated during Holy Week with some of the young people who are presumed to be in the organization of the party in order to coordinate a meeting, but until last night they had had no answer. “We want to listen to them, elucidate what happened and convey to them that we are concerned about their attitude. That they give their version, because in addition all people have the right to defense ”, said Dean Jorge Molinas, although he clarified that the house of studies does not have an organ comparable to the judicial one and less about events that occurred outside the building.
“Here ‘reflection’ is a key word and we already lived it in 2019, when a column of the Faculty was damaged during a Bajada (celebration of the end of the course) and the reflective process took us several weeks, until the people involved accepted that they had not been well, ”recalled the dean, who took office in May 2019.“ No disciplinary measures were taken because we reached an agreement that seemed very important at the time: that the students could understand it and make an act of reparation ”, he added, referring to the donation of books to the Health Area library.
“The most important thing is that this does not happen again. It is a moral question ”, concluded Molinas, himself doctor (immunologist and allergist).
Until now, the student voice was not heard to give reasons, arguments or apologies. Who did express himself in dialogue with La Capital was the president of the Rosario University Federation (FUR). Manuel Leiva He spoke out against the lack of care but also asked not to take the students as scapegoats, in addition to saluting the dialogue intention of the authorities of Medical Sciences. “The dean could have decided not to get involved because it is not his legal responsibility, a private celebration outside the university is not his competence, but even so the debate opens: a debate about the social role that we are responsible for as professionals and that from the centers of students and from the Federation we discuss permanently “, affirmed Leiva, and added:”There is nothing illegal in what the boys did, in any case lack of decorum ”.
“We have to reflect and take care of ourselves more and more, not relax, be in solidarity within the university and abroad in order to cope not only with the pandemic but also with the increase in poverty”, insisted the president of the FUR, a student of the Social Communication career and a member of the Alde political space.
Repudiation of the Physicians Union
The Union of Doctors of the Argentine Republic (Amra) sectional Santa Fe expressed “deep pain” in front of the images that transcended at the national level of the meeting in Florida, that some relate to the traditional “Bajada” or end-of-course celebration of fifth-year Medicine students, which before the pandemic was always held in the vicinity of the Faculty.
“We know that this celebration is a classic, now do it this way (all together, hugging, without any kind of distance or chinstrap) in this context It is an offense to the entire society that every day makes countless efforts to take care of itself and prevent the second wave from affecting us. Do these young people know that in the not too distant future they will have to exercise the profession and assume the Hippocratic oath with the responsibility that this implies? How are they going to tell their patients in the midst of a pandemic to keep their distance, use mouth, nose and chin covers and wash their hands frequently? ”Amra said in a statement.
“Although it is a fact outside the educational field, the Faculty as an institution should ensure strict compliance with the protocols with a strong drop in line with both students and the general public.. This unfortunate action should be punished as such by the authorities, but beyond what happened, what should be clear is that our profession and that of all health personnel, especially in the last year, is very far from these disgusting images, ”said the union.
“Work piecework 24 hours for seven days, put yourself in the first line of risk to save lives paying with your own in many cases, dedicate the most and entire professionalism many times without the adequate biosafety conditions so that no patient is lacking Attention is the true Hippocratic Oath, the one we were taught and instilled in when we decided to dedicate ourselves to health with a unique and wonderful goal, that of helping people to go through life in the best possible way “, the unionized doctors concluded in a harsh statement.
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