By Samachar Vishesh
News
Chandigarh 20th Jan-2020:-
A 2 Day National Roundtable Consultation on Best
Practices of Tobacco Control organized by Department of Community Medicine and
School of Public Health, PGIMER in collaboration with The
International Union against
Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, New Delhi kick started at Hotel Shivalik
View, sector 17, Chandigarh. Professor Sonu Goel, chief organizer of the event
welcomed the experts from 10 organisations working on tobacco control in India
to first such consultation in the country and apprised about the aim of
consultation to highlight best practices of tobacco control over last 15 years.
Dr L. Swasticharan, Chief Medical Officer, Directorate General of Health
Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) was the chief guest
of the event who emphasized upon the importance of such consultations for
sharing best practices along with integration of tobacco control with health
and non- health programmes of India. He told the best practices and innovations
in various domains of tobacco control go unnoticed due to lack of their formal
documentation and appreciated PGIMER, Chandigarh to take this initiative of
development of a compendium of best practices in tobacco control in India for
wider dissemination and learning. During the workshop, 6th issue
of Tobacco Free Times, a bimonthly newsletter of e- Resource Centre for Tobacco
Control, under Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health,
PGIMER Chandigarh was also released at the consultation by the experts.
The inaugural
presentation was done by Dr Rana J Singh, Deputy Regional Director, South East
Asia, the International Union against
Tuberculosis and Lung Disease who deliberated upon best practices
undertaken in National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) implementation in
India. Thereafter, Ranjit Singh, Legal Consultant, deliberated on effective
utilization of Cigarettes & other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) and allied
legislations for combating tobacco menace in India. Further, Ms Radhika
Srivastava, Director- Health Promotion, HRIDAY, New Delhi introduced best
practices in youth interventions for managing tobacco control in India. Later, Pranay
Lal, Senior Technical Advisor, from International Union against
Tuberculosis and Lung Disease deliberated introduced best practices in tackling
tobacco industry interference (TII) in India. This is the first national
consultation which aims at developing a compendium of best practices in tobacco
control in India, which will be helpful to national, and state level policy
makers and implementers in learning and implementing the same in their
settings.
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