NMC
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed medical colleges across the country to set up ‘tobacco cessation centres’ to combat the adverse effects of tobacco use and promote public health.
This initiative aims to strengthen the healthcare infrastructure by integrating specialised services for tobacco cessation into the educational and healthcare framework, a circular issued by the NMC on Friday stated.
“In line with its commitment to promoting public health and combating the adverse effects of tobacco use, the government has decided to establish tobacco cessation centres in medical colleges across the country,” it said.
“All the hospitals attached to each of the medical colleges are directed to make provisions for ‘tobacco cessation centre’. This can be a special clinic run by the Department of Psychiatry and/or other departments,” the circular said. These centres should also be established in rural and urban health centres that the college has adopted for training.
These centres along with tobacco cessation, will also work as ‘drug de-addiction centres, the circular added.
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