TALK – SAVE THE YOUTH SENSITIZATION TALK – CORPORATE
ONGC – Vasant Kunj Corporate Office
Topic: BE CAREFUL AND FEARFUL – Corporate engagement to SAVE the youth, Creating TOBACCO MARSHALs
Schedule: 21st October 2022 Time: 11:00 – 11:40 pm onwards
ICanCaRe Experts for the CAMP –
Dr. Pawan Gupta M.Ch, Director – Cancer Surgeon – MAX – Patparganj, Vaishali
As a part of the ONGC Cancer Awareness Health Mela organized by Corporate Medical Services, a talk “BE CAREFUL And FEARFUL” was given by Dr. Pawan Gupta at Oil and Natural Gas Corporation – Vasant Kunj Premises on 21st October 2022.
Dr. Pawan Gupta presented the importance of the SAVE the youth campaign in any organization and having TOBACCO MARSHALs on the premises.
The highlights of his talk included:
- Tobacco is a disease and needs to be treated as a disease
- Studies have shown tobacco users in any Institute comprise about 30-40%
- The majority of the Medical bill by any PSU is because of the chronic ill health of these tobacco users.
- Establishing tobacco users need centered activities will see a decrease in the medical bill over a period of time. Any investment in this will bring a major change for the corporate.
- A tobacco user Smoker is a man-hour loss to the company, which if calculated goes in crores.
- ICanCaRe can partner with the PSU to provide a Sensitization, Assistance, Training, and Enforcement plan for making an Institute Tobacco User Friendly and save crores of rupees for the Institute.
- The book – How to Make an Institution Tobacco Free authored by Pawan Gupta is a comprehensive guide for the same.
- He made them aware that quitting tobacco is possible and that one can quit tobacco with proper intervention by a Tobacco Cessation Specialist.
- Tobacco Chewers are on the rise in PSUs as smoking is not allowed on the premises. People switch to chew.
- He also highlighted self-examination, by 4 finger test and Chota Daana examination of the oral cavity on regular basis, especially for high-risk who take tobacco in any form.
- TRISCaRe the innovative mouth opener device was also demonstrated, which is a need for chewers for the unique disease Submucous fibrosis.
Mr. Kashmir Singh Randhawa, Group General Manager, HR who presented the token of appreciation to Dr. Pawan Gupta appreciated the concept of TOBACCO MARSHALs in all the units of ONGC and also for establishing ICanCaRe tobacco users clinic in the units.
Dr. Pranita Das, Head, Corporate Medical Services, more than agrees that the majority of medical bills are spent on tobacco users and more needs to be done to control this menace.
The medical team Dr. Vimal Kumar and Dr. Madhu all agreed and accepted the suggestions to do more on this line.
ICanCaRe with its expertise in Tobacco Control would be very happy to collaborate with ONGC for making it Tobacco Free.
Present during the talk were 77 ONGC management
Dr. Madhu, a practicing Physician said that cancer will become an epidemic if we don’t take care of it now. It is important that the public should raise their voice and treating doctors’ skills themselves to be able to prescribe to quit tobacco.
The program was nicely conducted and Participants showed interest to become tobacco MARSHAL to have a sustained effect in society against tobacco and drugs.
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