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Malinee Prapinwong
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Jun 01, 2003 08:19 PDT
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Thank you for the news. Personally,I'm curious to know what is the
reason of the denial from admission committee. Is it true that this
student will not be able to effectively perform her duties as a nurse
because of her weight? Is it really a legitimate concern? Is the
overweight can actually prevent this particular student to be
successful in her study? Is there any proof? From the news, we hardly
learned why the committee thinks the way they did.
There're probably many ideas to argue over this issue. As a Thai,this
is just the first case in Thailand that I've ever heard of about
weight issue. The problem is that people tend to overgeneralize the
issue to all overweight people, instead of focusing on what actually
happened in this incident.
Malinee
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| | Dear Professors and Friends,
Should an overwight be admitted to a nursing program?
A Thai girl had passed the written extrance examination to study
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Nursing
| | in a prestigious university, but later was denied admission because
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of
| | her 96-kilogram body! What do you think?
See details below:
HUMAN RIGHTS: Student's case irks activists
Published on Jun 1, 2003
Nursing school slammed over controversial decision to reject
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overweight
| | trainee
Human-rights advocates yesterday urged Mahidol University's nursing
school to re-consider its decision to reject Rosukhon Oransetakul as
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a
| | nursing student because she is overweight.
Senator Wallop Tungananurak - chairman of the Senate committee on
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women,
| | children and youth - said the Ministry of University Affairs should
allow her to study since she had already passed the nursing school's
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| | entrance examination.
Rosukhon, 18, was denied a seat at the school because the admission
committee considered her weight of 96 kilograms made her unfit to
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work
| | as a nurse.
Wallop said the incident showed that some institutions adopt rules
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and
| | regulations that run counter to the Constitution, which protects
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every
| | citizen's basic human rights.
As a result, these rules and regulations need to be amended, he
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said.
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"It doesn't make sense to tell the girl to lose weight and take the
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exam
| | again next year. Why not let her study and then lose weight later,"
Wallop said, adding that it is unreasonable for the school to argue
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that
| | the principle of human rights would downgrade the quality of its
professional training.
Another human-rights advocate, senator Montri Sintawi- chai, said:
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"I
| | want to see Rosukhon continue fighting for her rights. Being
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overweight
| | shouldn't be used as the basis barring her from being a nurse. This
practice is discriminatory. The school should amend its rules and
regulations."
In fact, the girl should be praised for speaking up, he added.
Jade Donavanik, Rosukhon's legal counsellor, said there would be
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further
| | attempts to get the school to reconsider its decision so that she
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can
| | pursue her chosen course of study.
Jade said if the school still stood by its decision, however,
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Rosukhon
| | would likely petition her case before the Administrative Court and
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the
| | National Human Rights Commission.
"The university shouldn't use weight as the key factor in making its
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| | admission decision. If the university insists that being overweight
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is
| | not admissible, it should clearly state so in its application form,"
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the
| | legal adviser added.
Pliporn Sanithikul,
Piyanuch Tamnukasetchai
THE NATION
Source:
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http://www.nationmultimedia.com/page.news.php3?clid=2&theme=A&usrsess=
1&id=14813
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