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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:
- Reducing Maternal Mortality
- Eliminating preventable Deaths of Newborns and Children
- Combating Communicable Diseases
- Ensuring access to essential healthcare services for all, including financial risk protection and access to quality essential healthcare services.
- Preventing and Treating Substance Abuse, and its impact on health and wellbeing.
- Reducing Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
- Ensuring access to family planning, information, and education, as well as addressing issues related to reproductive health.
- 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.