Varsity to conduct meditation sessions for employees, students
Varsity to conduct meditation sessions for employees, students
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In search of eternal bliss: About 7 per cent of people had reported
stress, restlessness and insomnia at the UoP health centre. Representation pic
In a circular issued on May 20, Dr S M Dudhgaonkar, who heads the student health centre, informed its employees and students the number of people reporting to mental health centre was on the ascent. "About six to seven per cent of people reported stress, insomnia, restlessness, among others, while in many cases it translates into psychosomatic symptoms such as persistent headaches, migraine and acidity. The stress is due to hectic lifestyle," said Dudhgaonkar.
Dudhgaonkar said the cases were not limited to students alone, but a significant percentage comprised staff members. "As a solution to these problems, the varsity has decided to introduce meditation sessions open to all free of cost," he said.
The circular states the meditation sessions would be open to all employees of the varsity, their family members and students. "Batches would commence from May 27 and entry would be on first-come-first-serve basis. The sessions would last for three hours and would be conducted on first and third Friday and second and fourth Saturday of each month," said Dudhgaonkar. The batches would comprise 40 people at a time and those wishing to register themselves at the health centre would be informed via SMS about the details, he said.
In other varsities
Rising incidence of stress and their adverse impact on academic life is a rising concern across education sector and other varsities too have taken measures to combat it. Dr Arun Jamkar, vice-chancellor of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), recently, announced that counselling and meditation would soon become a compulsory aspect of the MBBS curriculum. "We want to devise some techniques that will help reduce the pressure on medical students. And that's why we have decided to introduce a new module of counselling as part of the MBBS course. This will be a compulsory short-term programme spread over a seven-day period," said Jamkar.
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