Staff Reporter :
21 Anti-Tobacco organizations have expressed their appreciation of the latest initiative by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to strengthen the country’s tobacco control (TC) law through an amendment.
The amendment initiative has come with a view to addressing a number of high priority policy commitments that include implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ensuring compliance with Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) by the World Health Organization (WHO), and building a tobacco-free Bangladesh as envisioned by the Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.