The Nagaland Tobacco Control Cell has been carrying out various anti tobacco activities in the State.
DIMAPUR, JUNE 14 (MExN): The State Tobacco Control Cell (STCC) under the National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP) continues to reinvent its activities across the districts amid the Covid-19 lockdown.
Under the directives of the Union Health Minister and the Health Secretary, to strengthen the existing measures on ban of spitting and sale of tobacco products to reduce community transmission of COVID-19, also taking into account the advisory of WHO and ICMR, several initiatives are being undertaken by the respective District Tobacco Control Cells (DTCC), while maintaining strict social distancing norms and guidelines.
The department has been prioritising the promotion of ‘Tobacco Free Village’ by identifying new villages, with the DTCC coordinating with village authorities to implement the norms and guidelines to achieve the status. Along with the local authorities and CSOs anti-tobacco enforcement drives are underway; in addition to penalizing the vendors and seizing the tobacco products.
Talks, seminars and announcements of prohibition order on sale of tobacco products and spitting in public places are being conducted. Poster campaigns are also being carried out at strategic places like District hospitals, CHCs, PHCs, government offices, market streets and in quarantine facilities.
Another crucial campaign is the broadcast of anti-tobacco message in All India Radio FM Tragopan. As part of tobacco cessation program, focused group discussions are being carried out with current tobacco users to facilitate quitting of the use of tobacco products.
A MoU was also signed on June 6 between NTCP and CIHSR, Dimapur for setting up of Centre of Excellence for Tobacco Cessation.
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