Haridwar, May 31 (). Higher Education Minister Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat participated in the tobacco prohibition program at Rishikul Auditorium on Tuesday.
Addressing the program, Cabinet Minister Dhan Singh Rawat said that 10,000 jobs will be given by the Health Department, in which 3000 are of nurse staff. Soon this campaign will be completed. He said that tobacco-free campaign will be run in the entire Uttarakhand for 60 days. He called upon all the youth to join this campaign. He congratulated all the medical staff and team doing good work in Haridwar district.
He told that Ayushman is getting free treatment in India. He said that Uttarakhand is the first state in the country where Ayushman is for all and so far 53 lakh people have got their cards made. He said that Swasthya Choupal will be set up in every village every month.
The cabinet minister said that due to awareness in Uttarakhand, the number of tobacco users is gradually decreasing.
Dr. Rawat said that a comprehensive campaign will be launched in the entire state regarding how to make our state tobacco free. He said that last year 9 lakh 73 thousand people took oath to quit tobacco. On this occasion, Minister Dhan Singh Rawat administered oath to everyone not to use tobacco.
On this occasion, Ranipur MLA Adesh Chauhan, Vikas Tiwari, Additional District Magistrate P.L. Shah, CMO Dr. Manish Dutt, Red Cross Secretary Dr. Naresh Chaudhary, General Secretary of Ganga Sabha Tanmay Vashishtha Sandeep Goyal, Dr. Archana Ojha, Dr. Rana, Additional Chief Medical Officer RK Singh, CMS Rajesh Gupta CMS Roorkee, NS Rawat Municipal Health Officer Dr Tarun and Dr Sumit Saxena were present along with concerned officers.
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