Indus Health Networks Come Forward To Control Tobacco

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2021-09-20T14:18:00+05:00 DN Report

ISLAMABAD: The Indus Hospital and Health Network (IHHN) has recently started a drive themed 'Voices Against Tobacco (VAT)' to improve measures to control tobacco in Pakistan.

The initiative aimed to foster a positive cultural change amongst peers and communities by empowering them to control their health and future.

VAT would collaborate with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids to support schoolchildren by conducting capacity-building exercises in tobacco control. They would provide training at the Islamabad and Rawalpindi campuses of the educational institutes.

Malik Imran, Pakistan's representative for Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said that there had been little change in Pakistan's complex tobacco tax structure in recent years, despite having a mandate to raise prices through increased taxation. 

Dr Saima Saeed, Director of the Lung Health Programme, IHHN, said that VAT directly responded to the demand for a tobacco control coalition in Pakistan.

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