RNT's Smoking Cessation Initiative Extended to All Hospitals; Over 2,500 Patients Treated
The article reports that tobacco treatment clinics, running for the past one and a half years across all hospitals under RNT Medical College, have provided treatment to 2,306 people, with 201 patients treated under a free medicine scheme that also includes follow-up care. It further states that RNT’s campus was declared tobacco-free, following which 90 kg of tobacco was confiscated in 2022–23 and 83 kg in 2023–24 from the Super Speciality Hospital — totalling 173 kg over two years. The centre reportedly distributed medicines worth approximately Rs 1 lakh free of cost, helping around 150 patients become tobacco-free.