Coronavirus and the ignorance of Private University in Islamabad

On Tuesday, 17^th of November, Bahria University
Islamabad Campus conducted their mid-term examination. All students were told
that strict SOPs will be followed and that they care about the health of
students. But in reality, severe violation of SOPs was observed. No proper
checking was being carried out to ensure whether a student was suffering from
COVID-19 or not. Instead, they were letting each and every student into the
examination halls irrespective of the fact that they had coronavirus or not.

This kind of ignorance poses a huge threat to the lives of
students and their families. This virus spreads rapidly and can be fatal. All
of this situation is so ironic that they, themselves denied all the requests of
the students for online examination and instead, insisted on conducting the
examination on-campus, stating that, “BU Cares”.

Many students of BUIC are experiencing the symptoms of this
virus and today, a student who was present in the examination got tested
positive for coronavirus. She was coughing and was experiencing severe symptoms
of COVID-19. Despite that, university management did nothing about it.

Outside the exam halls, the situation was even worse. The
students weren’t maintaining any kind of social distancing and some were even
without masks. University management didn’t do anything to ensure the safety of
students and the SOPs were not properly enforced.

The worried students of BUIC had already protested against
on campus exams and had informed the university regarding all their concerns
about this virus. All their demands were valid and they included but are not
limited to.

• Problems regarding
  students staying in hostels.
• Concerns regarding
  the spread of virus.
• If the mode of
  education is online, exams should also be held online.