Secondhand Smoking Causes 31,000 Deaths Every Year In Pakistan

The Tobacco Control Cell of the Ministry of National Health Services and Dr. Akbar Niazi Teaching Hospital (ANTH) installed “No Smoking” signboards to raise public awareness.

Secondhand Smoking Causes 31,000 Deaths Every Year In Pakistan

The Tobacco Control Cell of the Ministry of National Health Services and Dr. Akbar Niazi Teaching Hospital (ANTH) installed “No Smoking” signboards at various bus stops throughout the federal capital to raise public awareness.

Islamabad Medical and Dental College (IMDC) also participated in the project. There was a ceremony in this regard that was attended by representatives of the Ministry of National Health Services, the Islamabad Traffic Authority (ITA), the Islamabad Traffic Police, and the administration of the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT).

It took place at the Karachi Company G-9 bus stop. As part of the No Smoking campaign to enforce tobacco control laws in the capital, Managing Director ANTH Yasir Khan Niazi and Secretary ITA Asma Sanaullah installed the No Smoking Signboards.

On this occasion, Dr. Khurshid Ahmad, Project Director of Islamabad Dental Hospital, Dr. Areej Neyazi, and Col. (R) Ghulam Mujtaba Abbasi, Executive Director of ANTH, were all present.

In order to support district administration and the Health Ministry’s initiative to make Islamabad a tobacco-free city, Secretary ITA and representatives from the Health Ministry thanked ANTH and IMDC management.

They stated their resolve to make Islamabad a smoke-free city for all of its residents and emphasized the importance of working with groups like Dr. Akbar Niazi Teaching Hospital(ANTH) to get there.

Yasir Niazi expressed his gratitude to the Health Ministry and ICT Administration for including the hospital in the Smoke-Free Islamabad project and promised to stand by them in support of the project’s success.

The hospital will continue to collaborate closely with the Ministry of Health, WHO, and ICT Administration on the Smoke-Free Islamabad project to raise public awareness, according to Imran Ali Ghouri, head of communications at ANTH. In an effort to make Pakistan a tobacco-free nation, he claimed that the hospital would soon open a tobacco cessation clinic.