World No Tobacco Day celebrated at Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute
“We Need Food, Not Tobacco”
Vallabhbhai Patel Chest
Institute and Society for Tobacco Control celebrated World No Tobacco Day at
Pental Memorial Golden Jubilee Auditorium of Patel Chest. On this occasion,
Prof Jagdish Kaur, Regional Consultant, TFI, World Health Organization was
present as the chief guest. She discussed the topic in detail with the slogan
“We Need Food, Not Tobacco” on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day. NTQLS
Visitors Book was also released by the Chief Guest on the occasion.
Prof Rajkumar, Director,
Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, who is also the Principal Investigator,
National Tobacco Cessation Service, welcomed all the guests. In his address, he
told how he got the inspiration to get rid of smoking and tobacco. He told that
I would like to work with only two objectives: first, those who have not
started should not start, second those who have started by mistake should quit
and to quit, if you need any kind of help to quit, we are ready, our team is
ready, we have a quit line. He called upon all the principals to cooperate in
this campaign. On this occasion, a beautiful drama based on "We Need Food,
Not Tobacco" was also presented by the staff working in the National
Tobacco Free Service.
Prof Rama, Principal of
Hansraj College, Prof Vipin Agarwal, Principal of Sri Aurobindo College, Prof
Savita Roy, Principal of Daulat Ram College, Prof Manoj Khanna, Principal of
Ramjas College, Prof Manoj Sinha, Principal of Aryabhatta College and Prof
Praveen Garg, Principal of Swami Shraddhanand College were present on the
occasion as special guests and kept their views. At the end of the program Vote
of thanks was proposed by Prof Ritu Kulshrestha.
Vallabhbhai Patel Chest
Institute is a unique postgraduate medical institute dedicated to research,
teaching and patient care in the field of chest diseases. The institute is
ideally located in the heart of the main campus of University of Delhi, which
provides the expected academic environment. The institute caters to the
national need of providing relief to large numbers of patients in the community
suffering from chest diseases. It has performed its role very well and has
earned a unique place in the field of Chest Medicine.
Apart from this, the
institute runs a center named National Tobacco Quitline Service (NTQLS), which
is a link of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India,
which has been working continuously for the last seven years to get rid of
tobacco and smoking addiction. In the year 2014 a world class meeting in China
in which the Government of India selected Prof Rajkumar for representation who
has been working for the last 20 years to get rid of tobacco and smoking
addiction.