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

SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being

UPES report · 5. Sexual and reproductive health care for students

5Sexual and reproductive health care for students

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

Every student gets free, confidential care.

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.

The health team also covers academic and sports activities, takes part in disaster-management drills, and trains staff and students in first aid, CPR and the use of an AED. Each infirmary has its own BLS ambulance. To keep the campus hygienic, the team carries out sanitary rounds, including checks at the food court, and biomedical waste is managed under authorisation from the Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board (UPES Health Facilities Report).

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.

This section supports UN targets 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and 3.d.

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.