UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being

UPES report · 5. Sexual and reproductive health

5Sexual and reproductive health care for students

Students at UPES get free, confidential sexual and reproductive health care, along with information and education.

  • Free, confidential care for every student

Impact

Every student has free, confidential, round-the-clock access to sexual and reproductive health care, backed by insurance for anything the campus cannot treat.

₹1,00,000medical insurance for every student
24×7medical care on both campuses
4doctors, with a resident doctor on each campus
2BLS ambulances
  • Every student can see a female medical officer in confidence, at no cost.
  • Medicines from the campus medical centres are free.
  • Sanitary napkin vending machines in girls' hostels and washrooms give students easy access to menstrual products.
  • Annual sessions on menstrual health and contraception give students accurate information.
  • Medical centres on the Bidholi and Kandoli campuses offer confidential consultations with a female medical officer. Consultations and medicines are free.
  • Gynaecological health lectures are held for female students, alongside wider health talks and World Health Day sessions.
  • Sanitary napkin vending machines are installed in girls' hostels and washrooms.
  • Awareness sessions on menstrual health and contraception are held every year.
  • Every registered student is medically insured for ₹1,00,000, including cover for road accidents, with referral to nearby hospitals when specialist care is needed. Staff are insured too.
  • The medical team includes two female doctors, so students can choose to see a woman doctor.

Medical care on both campuses

24×7medical and emergency services
2medical health centres, one per campus
10day-care beds
4doctors, with a resident doctor on each campus
6nursing assistants and pharmacists
2BLS ambulances
The entrance to the UPES infirmary at the Bidholi campus, with a waiting area inside
The Medical Health Centre at the Bidholi campus.
Hospital beds with monitors and screens in the Bidholi infirmary day-care area
The 6-bed day-care area at the Bidholi infirmary.
A BLS ambulance parked outside the UPES Kandoli campus infirmary
The Kandoli infirmary with its BLS ambulance on standby.
Security staff stand beside CPR training mannequins during a first-aid session
First-aid and CPR training for security staff at the Kandoli campus.

Health care for students

What students needWhat UPES providesCost to students
A confidential consultationA female medical officer at the medical centre on each campusFree
MedicinesDispensed at the campus medical centresFree
Specialist or hospital careReferral to nearby hospitalsCovered by medical insurance up to ₹1,00,000 per student
Menstrual productsSanitary napkin vending machines in girls' hostels and washroomsAvailable on campus
Information and educationGynaecological health lectures and annual sessions on menstrual health and contraceptionFree
Emergency care24×7 medical services and two BLS ambulancesOn campus

The same approach reaches beyond campus: Project Lakhon Khawahishen and reproductive health sessions for girls in Than village are described in section 3.

A speaker at a UPES podium presents a Menstruation Matters slide to an audience on campus
A menstrual equity session for UPES students, faculty and staff, held at the launch of Project Yoni, a student-founded NGO working to end period poverty.