To consider a proposal to

First aid boxes in hostels and SIS posts

Proposed by: Pranshu Garg, Senator BT/BS Y15

First aid is a very basic need which must be provided to everyone, anywhere, anytime. But we don’t see a lot of first aid boxes around which may become a serious concern if any mishap happens with somebody. In hostels, the hall office does have one, but then hall offices have fixed timings which takes away the very essence of having a first aid box around. The sports facilities available in hostels makes the need even more dire. We should keep first aid boxes at various primary spots in the campus as well so that we can ensure immediate the first help to the needy.

I understand that keeping these boxes unsupervised may lead to stealing of medicines, hence, keeping them at SIS posts may solve that issue. This can be done for both hostels and remaining parts of the campus, but I would like to look into the possibility of keeping a first aid box in each wing in the hostels, or at least in the wings nearest to the sports facilities.

Also, regarding the maintenance of the box, the staff currently responsible for maintain them at various hall offices may be assigned more responsibility. Further the boxes at other SIS posts may be centrally maintained by HC at the SIS control room.

Once this is achieved, I would like to propose that the whole campus junta be provided with basic training in first aid so that they can give and receive the basic help whenever required. However, this being a long term plan, we will need to discuss upon various aspects of the issue, like how and when to provide the training to various sections of campus junta and the body which will be responsible conduct such a campaign on a large scale.