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Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well Being

Overview

SDG 3 aims to promote good health and well-being for all ages, focusing on improving health outcomes, reducing maternal and child mortality, combating communicable diseases, and ensuring access to essential healthcare services.

Major Goals include:

  1. Reducing Maternal Mortality
  2. Eliminating preventable Deaths of Newborns and Children
  3. Combating Communicable Diseases
  4. Ensuring access to essential healthcare services for all, including financial risk protection and access to quality essential healthcare services.
  5. Preventing and Treating Substance Abuse, and its impact on health and wellbeing.
  6. Reducing Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
  7. Ensuring access to family planning, information, and education, as well as addressing issues related to reproductive health.
  8. Strengthening and improving the overall capacity of health systems.

Major Activities conducted/ policies implemented by UPES:

  • University provides basic healthcare facilities to students and staff members. Doctors on roll provide basic first aid in case of medical emergencies and subsequently student/ staff is assisted in evacuating him/her to nearest hospital.

    The medical treatment cost is to be borne by student or his/her parent. The onus of ensuring the student under medical insurance is on the student and he/she is expected to keep insurance card handy.

    Details also available https://www.upes.ac.in/student-space/student-support 
    https://admission.upes.ac.in/portal/feel-home/health-and-medical-services.

    Provision of Health Insurance for Staff members

  • Beating Period Poverty Together’ – Project – Lakhon Khawahishen (Menstrual Hygiene Training at Villages; - 1200+ women
  • Annual Blood donation camps organised by Department of Student Welfare and NSS wing.
  • Providing 24/7 online counselling services for the students under the umbrella of UPES Cares.
  • Collaboration with True Wellness App for ‘Main Hoon Na’ initiative to track the health goals, help relieve mental stress, and to provide information related to workouts.
  • Collaborated with MAX hospital to offer annual health check-up of employees at MAX hospital under the Sanjeevani scheme.