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World Anti-Tobacco Day
Updated On: 31 May, 2013 04:56 AM IST | | Soma Das
On May 2, Dr Pankaj Chaturvedi of Tata Memorial Hospital, was awarded the Judy Wilkenfeld Award for International Tobacco Control Excellence in Washington DC, for his work to reduce tobacco usage in India. On World Anti-Tobacco Day, Soma Das invited him to speak about his campaign
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Working at Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Hospital, Head and Neck Cancer Surgeon Dr Pankaj Chaturvedi witnessed the suffering of patients with tobacco-caused cancers, firsthand. It made him realise that a change wasn’t possible unless the public realised the horrifying reality that he witnessed in the operating room.
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