Fernando Camacho Servin
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday February 19, 2023, p. 9
After the start of the student strike at the National School of Medicine and Homeopathy (ENMH) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), students who support said mobilization assure that they have been intimidated
by officials of the institution and teachers close to the school management, with the supposed objective of preventing more young people from joining the protest action.
In interview with the dayJoab Olivo, a student at the ENMH, indicated that the take from college still stands
due to the fact that the approaches last Friday with the academic secretary of the IPN, Igor Jasso, ended without agreements due to the attitude of disqualification
from the official to the dissatisfied.
At the dialogue table we were discussing the points of our petition and the teacher began to politicize the issue, arguing that I have personal interests and that I am in collusion with the school workers.
who carried out a four-day strike on the campus and ended it just the day the students began.
In addition, Olivo indicated, last Thursday an official physically assaulted his sister, stomp on her and grab her arm
when the young woman recorded with her cell phone the friction that occurred when the students started the take of the campus At the moment when the education support and assistance personnel handed over the facilities and we were ready to close them with chains, the police and the people from the general secretariat jumped on us and tried to slam the door.
recounted.
He assured that teachers close to the address
They have tried to discourage the participation of other students in the strike, stating that the school did not obtain the endorsement of the Mexican Council for the Accreditation of Medical Education due to these demonstrations.
Actually, he maintained, this is attributable to the management of the ENMH and It leaves us in a bad image before hospitals. It can even cause us to lose clinical fields
that is, the health centers where the students carry out their professional practices.
Meanwhile, sources from the National School of Biological Sciences of the IPN indicated that a student assembly will be held tomorrow to discuss the lack of enrollment quotas, so the start of work stoppages and other protest actions is not ruled out.
