Activities

Currently, The Well-being Centre is functioning by adapting the Blunted approach with cascade effects methodology and it is providing the services such as study area facilities, teaching-learning sessions for first year medical students by freshly passed out graduates, mentoring sessions, counseling sessions, PPDS portfolio supervisor- supervisee discussions, conducting workshops and seminars, providing physical space to conduct meetings, leisure time activities, movie night, Indoor game arena, reading room, healthy diet programme, career guidance and soft skills development activities etc. At present, the well-being Centre is managed through a representative of medical students’, with the support of academic and academic supportive staff from the faculty. The Dean, Faculty of Medicine appoint five demonstrators to improve the service of Wellbeing Centre. Most interestingly the Centre was established and effectively functioning without any external support. The new needs were identified by conducting relevant stakeholder meetings and solutions will be proposed immediately.

Teaching – learning session are carried out by freshly passed out graduates for 1^st year Medical students

Mentoring sessions are carried out to provide guidance, motivation, emotional support and role modeling to mentees by their respective mentors.

We facilitate the PPDS portfolio supervisor-supervisee discussion and also providing the physical space.

Stakeholder forum for cost effective healthy diet programme

Due to the current economic crisis situation, availability and affordability of healthy diet for Medical students is difficult. So there is a need to implement a cost effective healthy diet programme among Medical students which will provide them a healthy meal in an optimum price.

Mango Garden

On October 7, 2025, the Students’ Wellbeing Centre of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna, partnered with Faculty of Medicine alumni and Green Layer Environment to plant 50 mango trees in the faculty garden. This vibrant initiative enhances our green spaces and promotes campus sustainability for future generations.

Twenty bags of fertilizer were received and stored for one-month maturation before application. Initial nourishment came from on-site garden compost, with supplemental fertilizer planned for later stages. Irrigation infrastructure was expertly installed from October 14–15, 2025, ensuring reliable watering for healthy growth. Special thanks to Tabarane Pharmaceuticals for their generous sponsorship, supporting the garden’s ongoing maintenance.

Vegetable Garden

A vegetable garden was established at the Wellbeing Centre premises so that vegetables can be straight away hand-picked and used for meal preparation within the faculty itself. Harvested vegetables from the Wellbeing Centre garden is currently being sold to canteen caterer of the faculty.

As a measure to make meals affordable to students, dry rations which are estimated to be enough for 3 weeks are now bought from the wholesalers at a lower price and stored in a room within the medical hostel. For that we are correlating as following 3 steps

1. 1. Purchase
   2. Storage
   3. Distribution

Purchase

• Initially we estimate the amount of raw material for purchasing and submit the list of needy items to Alumni office. Following that, The Alumni office sends request letter to the shops for quotation (items, transport & labor charge), we get the quotation from 4-5 shops. We submit the list of quotation to The Alumni office and they analyze those quotation list and then finalize a shop to purchase the needed items. Finally, needed items will be transported to hostel canteen for the storage in the store room from the finalized shop.

 Storage

• We maintain the store of the purchased items and food register for that.

Distribution

• We issue the raw material to canteen contractor with the involvement of MSU and then the money for issued items will be collected from them and it will be deposited to bank account of Alumni. Finally the slip will be submitted to the Alumni office.

From September to November of 2023, an environmentally conscious front, our dedicated eco-friendly team carried out the following activities.

The tomato, chili, and brinjal seeds were sown in a meticulously prepared nursery bed. Additionally, maize seeds were strategically planted as a border crop. Subsequently, the green grams were carefully sown into the soil and irrigated to kick start the growth process.