Launching National No Tobacco Week (TL) from May 25 to 31, 2023
(CT) - On May 25, Bach Mai Hospital organized a scientific workshop in response to World Day Without Tobacco (May 31, 2023). The workshop was held directly at Bach Mai Hospital and online with the Department of Health of 63 provinces and cities, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), hospitals, and medical centers nationwide.
In his opening speech, Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Van Giap, Deputy Director of Bach Mai Hospital, said: In reality, although tobacco is known to be harmful, medical staff still smoke tobacco, and patients with tobacco-related diseases continue to smoke tobacco. It is common for students to buy tobacco. Doctors may prescribe drugs to treat tobacco-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc., but they forget to advise and guide patients to quit tobacco, and patients continue to be hospitalized. Medical staff must consider tobacco use as an important issue that needs intervention, and must spend time and effort to advise patients. If tobacco use is not given due attention, the health sector will continue to treat many tobacco-related diseases.
At the workshop, delegates were updated on methods of counseling and drug treatment in TL withdrawal; screening for TL-related diseases at medical facilities; and screening for lung cancer with low-dose chest CT scans. The workshop was an opportunity for doctors to discuss and find solutions to help patients successfully quit TL.
Can Tho CDC recommends that medical units hang banners to propagate regulations on prevention and control of harmful effects of TL
* Information from Can Tho City CDC, in response to World Day without Tobacco May 31 and National Week without Tobacco from May 25 to 31, 2023, Can Tho CDC recommends that medical units strengthen propaganda and strictly implement the Law on Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harms; establish or strengthen the steering committee for the Tobacco Harm Prevention and Control program; include the content of tobacco harm prevention and control in the annual work plan; include regulations prohibiting tobacco in the workplace in the internal rules and regulations of the unit; hang tobacco prohibition signs at locations where smoking is prohibited... Organize response activities: hang banners, slogans, broadcast on loudspeakers in medical facilities; post information on social networks, fanpages of the unit; integrate propaganda in meetings, seminars, conferences, events... supplement communication materials related to tobacco harm prevention and control in the health education corner of the unit to provide information to people...
According to the Ministry of Health, this year's World Day without pesticides was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) with the theme "We need food, not pesticides" to call on countries to promote activities to raise public awareness of the harmful effects of pesticides on health, economy, environment, food security and nutrition; mention the link between the use and cultivation of pesticides and poverty; call for the elimination of pesticides to increase spending on food.
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