2024-04-10 02:58:43
Catalina Cayazaya took her own life after alleging harassment by her professors at the Universidad de los Andes.
The Undersecretary of Higher Education referred to the case of Catalina Cayazaya through a statement, in which he regretted the death of the student of the University of the Andeswho She committed suicide after claiming to be a victim of harassment by her teachers.
In this way, the entity started by saying that “wishes to express its deep regret for the death of Catalina Cayazaya Cors, student of the Occupational Therapy program at the University of Los Andes, and express his support for his family, friends, and the university community.”
Along with this, the Undersecretariat stated that they will accompany “Decisions that clarify what happened and that hopefully prevent tragedies like this from happening again.”
“Guaranteeing the right to quality higher education, aimed at the human development of people, free of violence and in conditions of well-being and protection of the physical and mental health of the educational communities, is a complex challenge that we have proposed to address and in which we continue working to give mental health the place it deserves, an objective that this Government has set itself,” they added.
In this sense, they stated that in collaboration with the Undersecretariat of Public Health, of the Minsal, “we carried out the first diagnosis on mental health in higher education.” In addition to this, they reported that in 2023 the Mental Health Advisory Council.
“The recommendations of this council, which will come to light in May, “They will serve to guide public policies and institutional practices in these matters.”with the aim of preventing student rights from being violated.
In closing, the Undersecretary of Higher Education stated: “We regret the departure of Catalina Cayazaya and we hope that the circumstances surrounding her will soon be clarified.”
Catalina Cayazaya’s complaint for harassment at the Universidad de los Andes
This case was made known by Carolina Cors, the young woman’s mother, who, through social networks, published a letter revealing the harassment that her daughter suffered inside the Universidad de los Andes, while she was in the fifth year of her undergraduate degree. Occupational Therapy.
“On March 16 of this year I found her dead in the morning, with a note asking for forgiveness for not being able to resist so much pain.“, he revealed.
Continuing along this line, Catalina Cayazaya’s mother explained one of the events that led the young woman to make the decision to take her own life.
“She had an occupational therapy tutor who used the inmates to conduct workshops and who He treated them according to the mood with which he woke up, even with insults and disrespect.. “She discussed it with her teacher in charge, but without any results,” she explained.