Organized by :IQAC, Mangaldai College in collaboration with District Health Society, Darrang District Tobacco Control Cell
Date of Event : 2022-09-09
No of Participants : 166
Document uploaded by: IQAC, Mangaldai College Department

An awareness meeting on Tobacco Burden and Training on COPTA-2003 was organised by District Health Society, Darrang, District Tobacco Control Cell in collaboration with IQAC, Mangaldai College on 9th September 2022 at the Science Gallery of Mangaldai College. The meeting started at 11 am with the welcome address by Dr. Santosh Borkakati, Coordinator, IQAC, Mangaldai College. Dr. Harpal Singh Suri, Joint Director of Health Services, Darrang delivered the inaugural speech. The resource persons - Arzoo Dutta, Senior Consultant National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP), Assam and Dr N K Beriya, District Nodal Officer, DHSNTCP, Darrang stressed the need to maintain a tobacco free environment in the campuses and surroundings of educational institutions and also to make society aware of the serious health hazards of tobacco consumption. Dr Shahidul Islam of Darrang Cancer Hospital in his lecture narrated that the use of any form of tobacco happens to be one of the prime reasons for oral cancer.