The controversy over the massive postponements in the UNLP Faculty of Medicine yesterday added harsh criticism from Franja Morada, who through a statement linked the problem with the lack of teachers, spaces, and tools to attend to the massive number of courses in 60 and 120. And for that reason he pointed to the current administration.
As they warned in the reformist group, “the students of 1st year of the Medicine career (where 80% of those who appeared to take the first partial of Anatomy C failed) were not cared for or prepared during the last two years and today they end up being victims of the inaction and ineffectiveness of the authorities that head and lead our house of studies”.
In that sense -and following recalling that Dean Juan Ángel Basualdo Farjat was re-elected with the accompaniment of Remediar (JUP, student majority on the Board of Directors), Unite (PCR) and Viento de Abajo (Patria Grande, minority on the Council) -, from Franja Morada protested that “it is not fair to question students who do not study with the minimum guarantees of time and forms” or question “whether or not they study enough when [producto de la pandemia] they were locked up for two years, finishing high school behind a computer (although many without access to it), due to the sole decision of the government of the Frente de Todos that only deepened inequalities” such as “it is also not fair to focus on a chair that does not have the number of teachers or the necessary tools for so many students due to the defunding of the national government in the universities and that the student groups accompany”.
After directing their darts at the student groups “that raise the same political flags at the provincial and national levels”, in Franja Morada they admitted that “it hurts to be in the news once more because of the ‘bochazos in Medical Sciences’, or because of the violence exerted by certain groups ”, in reference to the moments of tension that were experienced last week during a picket that sought to make the situation visible in 60 and 120. For the reformists, this fact only served to show “opportunism and not what the students need”.
Regarding the end of the statement accessed by this newspaper, the militants of Franja Morada lamented that what is happening today in Medicine brings back the memory of past times and demanded “more paid teaching positions, more infrastructure, improve the conditions of study and guarantee an education quality and public.
While they advocated for “a faculty that contains us and not that generates policies that constantly show that they want us out.” To do this, they demanded “more budget that translates into more and better courses, more teachers and more spaces” and insisted that future doctors need to “take courses and train with quality.”
