Mauro Aguilar
04/01/2021 2:49 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/01/2021 15:04
In the midst of the growth of coronavirus cases, which this week set records in different parts of the country, some
200 medical students
from the National University of Rosario (UNR) participated in a party
without distancing or chinstraps
and sharing drinks.
The issue generated the rejection of the local mayor, Pablo Javkin, and the decision to initiate an investigation to find out how the meeting was organized in which the protocols were not respected.
“Particularly from a faculty linked to health, it is from where
one least expects it
.
You have to take these facts not only to be outraged, which is appropriate, but to understand what not to do, "said the mayor.
And he added: "We are talking about ventilating and in the open air; but in the open air, anything, no. In the open air it is with a chinstrap, with distance."
The local authorities and the National University of Rosario will investigate how the celebration was organized.
Photo: Street View
The traditional
“Bajada”
, in which the students who start the final year of the degree participate every year, this time took place on the beach of the La Florida spa, in the north of Rosario and on the banks of the Paraná River.
One of the sectors, which is the one used by the young people for the meeting, is accessed by paying a ticket and entry with alcoholic beverages is prohibited.
In addition, the security personnel make it necessary to clean themselves before entering and communicate the health safety regulations: plastic circles are arranged on the beach so that bubbles can form between families or groups of friends.
The group was even located in the smoking sector, which is delimited with the use of ropes.
One of the photos that was leaked of the controversial celebration of 200 students of the last year of Medicine.
The photos and videos that circulated on networks show that the medical students were grouped together without respecting distance or wearing masks.
Some members of the group days ago participated in a protest to demand that they be allowed to carry out practices and even, due to their advanced studies,
collaborate with the attention
to the pandemic situation.
They also consumed alcoholic beverages that, according to those responsible for the beach that is concessioned by the municipality,
would have entered through some perimeter sector
without the guard of the place noticing.
4 hours of celebration
The meeting was held on Wednesday afternoon.
The students were arriving in small groups, until a number close to two hundred concentrated.
Mayor Pablo Javkin launched an investigation to determine how the celebration was organized.
Photo: Juan José García / Archive
The party began at 2:00 p.m. and at 6:00 p.m., those responsible for the spa asked them, with the support of the Urban Guard, to leave the place.
The assistants left peacefully.
“It draws attention.
While these are matters of a private nature, it is a place with bubbles and protocol.
It rubs against what we promulgate from the faculty ”, the rector of the medical university, Jorge Molinas, raised in dialogue with Radio Dos.
The highest authority of the faculty said that he found out what happened through social networks and that he will summon the students to talk about what happened.
Molinas even recalled when part of the historic Medicine building deteriorated in the 2019 “Bajada” and after a meeting with those responsible, it was decided to donate books to compensate for the expense that had caused the repair of the damage.
This year the medical school rehabilitated the face-to-face classes, but with small groups that did not exceed six students.
There are safe lanes to circulate within its facilities, where the use of a chinstrap and taking care of the distance is mandatory.
Rosary beads. Correspondent.
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