Health Desk- 14 Jan,
2020: The evidence of smoking such as cigarette butts and smell of smoke
were found at 71 percent of public hospitals in Dhaka which goes against the
Smoking and Tobacco Usage (Control) Act, according to a survey carried out by
National Heart Foundation.
The survey was conducted in 51 hospitals in Dhaka among
which 45 percent had the evidence of using smokeless tobacco while tobacco
products were sold within 100 metres of the 80 percent government hospitals.
The findings were shared at a seminar arranged by National
Heart Foundation at the Jatiya Press Club on Monday.
Dr Khairul Abrar, Programme Officer of the Anti-Tobacco
Programme of the National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh, presented the keynote
paper at the seminar highlighting the key findings of the survey.
“Under the act, hospitals in the country are supposed to be
completely tobacco-free but the reality is something quite opposite,” he said.
Prof Dr Habibe Millat, MP, in his speech as the chief guest,
urged the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to take necessary steps
to enforce the tobacco law properly at the hospitals.
Chaired by National Professor Brigadier (retd) Abdul Malik,
the seminar was attended, among others, by Dr Rayhan-e-Jannat, acting Line
Director of the Health Department and Manager of Non-communicable Disease
Control Program, Shamima Ferdous, Deputy Secretary (World Health) Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare, Mozaffar Hossain, President of Bangladesh National
Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Prof Dr Mollah Obaydullah, President of
Bangladesh Cancer Society and members of different anti-tobacco organisations.
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