Bangladeshi Member of Parliament Saber Hossain Chowdhury has been announced a recipient of the “World No-Tobacco Day 2017” award given by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Chowdhury has been chosen for initiating inclusion of tobacco control in the country’s seventh five year plan in 2015.
World Health Organization (WHO) has conferred Director General’s Special Recognition Award to India’s Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda, for his leadership and commitment to advancing tobacco control, while also selecting Ministers of Health for Maldives and Bhutan among five individuals/ institutions from the WHO South-East Asia Region for this year’s World No-Tobacco Day Award.
From the WHO South-East Asia Region, Health Minister of Maldives Abdullah Nazim Ibrahim has been conferred the World No-Tobacco Day Award for increasing taxes and import duties on cigarettes, promoting tobacco cessation services and launching the anti-tobacco “I Choose Life” campaign last year.
Health Minister of Bhutan Tandin Wangchuk has been selected for the award for implementing measures, as Chairperson of Bhutan’s Narcotic Control Authority, to ban production and sale of tobacco in the country.
The chief executive officer of Thai Health Promotion Foundation Dr Supreda Adulyanon and Sri Lanka’s National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol control are among the others selected for the award from the Region this year.
