USU Public Relations - In preparation for the Health Campus assessment to be carried out by the Ministry of Health, the USU Rector received a visit from the USU Healthy Campus Team in the Audience Room of the Rector's Bureau, USU's Central Administration Bureau, on Tuesday (10/18/2022).

The healthy campus assessment focuses on all the activities of the USU academic community as a whole consisting of lecturers, education staff, students, and others. The USU Healthy Campus Team is optimistic that it will get maximum results in the research from the Indonesian Ministry of Health.

Deputy in charge of the USU 2022 Healthy Campus Team, Prof. Dr. dr. Muhammad Fidel Ganis Siregar, M.Ked(OG), Sp.OG(K) explained that later the assessment will also cover the health of the campus environment at each of the faculties at USU to USU Hospital.

"The focus of this hearing is for all USU academic activities, consisting of lecturers, education staff and students as well as those who provide an assessment of this healthy campus for the entire Universitas Sumatera Utara," Prof. Fidel said.

Prof. Fidel explained that USU was optimistic in this assessment due to the support of the Rector and the readiness of the USU 2022 Healthy Campus Team.

"So we are together to meet with the Rector, and it turns out that the Rector is very supportive of our activity, so it's considered that we must be ready," he said.

In line with this, the Head of the USU 2022 Healthy Campus Team, Dr. Lita Sri Andayani, S.K.M., M.Kes., hopes that the assessment process will run smoothly, because this research involves support from the USU academic community so that USU gets the best score.

"Because this is all the support from the rectorate and all of the USU academic community, so that USU's assessment will be the best," Dr. Lita explained.

The Head of the Healthy Campus Team plans that after conducting research, there will be many things that will be improved so that the entire USU academic community can avoid various kinds of diseases ranging from infectious and non-communicable diseases to mental health.

"In future plans, we hope that it will not just up to an assessment as the sustainability of a healthy campus is still a lot which we have to improve," the Head of the Healthy Campus 2022 Team mentioned.

Some of the things that the USU Healthy Campus 2022 Team has prepared for the assessment that will be carried out by the Ministry of Health on (10/19-20/2022) are documentation and some infrastructure. (©ULC)

Author: Bambang Riyanto - Humas

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Photographer: Irsan Mulyadi - Humas