‘Centre where infected students are lodged is unhygienic’
The JNU Teachers’ Association on Wednesday reiterated its demand for setting up COVID care facilities on campus by converting the existing guest houses into isolation centres for residents that would include providing oxygen support. The teachers said that IIT-Delhi had set up such a facility and was producing its own oxygen.
The teachers said the students who test positive on the JNU campus are taken to an isolation centre in Sultanpuri which does not have proper facilities. “JNUTA has received pictures sent by students of dirty toilets, open garbage cans, unchanged sheets and bedding that show how unhygienic and unsafe the facilities are. Starting yesterday [Tuesday], JNUTA has been providing packets of fruits and dry food to our students housed there. If only such isolation facilities had been constructed in JNU, in guest houses or makeshift arrangements in the stadium, not just students but other residents would