I came across the following article a few years ago and the
very strongly positive impression it made on my mind has not diminished with
time.
There is not an iota of doubt in my mind that every single residential campus that houses students, staff and faculty members needs to have medial facilities that (a) assure the campus residents of the best possible response and care in emergency scenarios such as trauma, heart failure, strokes, snake/animal bites, etc., (b) have regular consultation hours with good doctors, (c) carry enough diagnostic equipment to be able to identify most diseases / medical conditions and (d) have enough number of beds to admit patients for short to medium term treatments and recovery.
Not a single life, not one, should be lost because either the required equipment and essentials are not available on campus or the doctors and nurses on duty are not qualified / trained well enough.
I look forward to alumni from other institutes coming forward with similar gestures to upscale the medical facilities in their alma maters. And for institutes that are relatively new and without a significant alumni base yet, I look forward to this happening through government grants, corporate investments, etc.
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