Safe return to UDA classrooms
On Monday, September 20, with the return of the first group of students to the facilities of the central campus, a new face-to-face semester was inaugurated after three semesters in virtuality.
The return of the students began gradually; the Faculty of Administration Sciences was the first to return to university classrooms, followed by the Faculty of Science and Technology and later the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Education Sciences and the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Arts. This week Medicine and Legal Sciences will return to classes.
The Occupational Health Unit of the University of Azuay was in charge of developing a plan that ensures the protection of the university community.
Fabián Jaramillo, occupational doctor of the UDA, emphasized the caution of the University in health matters: “In March 2020 nobody was prepared, but the foundations were laid. Today, we have clarified the security protocols overcoming obstacles along the way and making it safe ”.
The UDA Health Unit, under the command of the occupational physician, is a medical program carried out at the University long before the pandemic with the aim of protecting the health of the university community.
In the same, medical programs of routine examinations are fulfilled in which the full health of the employees is guaranteed; Examinations carried out on the employee once he joins and then annually.
Currently and according to the safe return to face-to-face classes, the Health Unit proposed a safe plan, which begins with the signing of the Ethical Pact by the students and an approximate 97% of the university population vaccinated against Covid-19 , and continues with commitments such as the use of a double mask, the use of alcohol, social distancing, classroom ventilation, Carbon Dioxide meters and classes of between 45 and 50 minutes.
It should be noted that, in a preventive manner, the Health Unit will constantly carry out tests for Covid-19 at random in the university community.
In addition, the teaching and administrative staff carried out trainings that demonstrate the importance of being prepared in the best way for the pandemic, also knowing that these trainings will be constant and highly necessary.
“More than any plan, the main thing is the attitude of the people, the fulfillment of the recommendations and norms and the responsibility of trying not to bring the disease to our homes and families. Let's be responsible ”, concluded Jaramillo.
UDA Correspondent
