DU teachers seek Union Minister’s intervention to set up COVID facility
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With no COVID Care Centre being set up by the Delhi University at the Patel Chest Institute, despite repeated requests by professors, a few members of the DU executive council on Thursday wrote to Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan seeking urgent intervention.
Stating that several teaching and non-teaching staffers of DU have died due to COVID-19, the professors sought immediate ramping up of facilities in the university.
The letter written by EC members Seema Das, Rajpal Singh Pawar and Finance Committee member Dr. J.L. Gupta said it was unfortunate that medical resources available in the university had not been utilised to their full capacity. “In the given scenario, there is an urgent need to revamp the facilities available at all medical centres and more particularly at Vallabhai Patel Chest Institutesituated in the heart of the university. People are dying due to non-availability of beds and oxygen cylinders. Even within the university, we have lost near and dear ones working in the administration, departments and colleges...” the letter read.