Dimapur, March 23 (EMN): Enforcement personnel raided some shops, selling tobacco products, in and around the Naga Hospital in Kohima town.
The raids were carried out on March 22 by an anti-tobacco squad which included municipal workers, police personnel and officials from the district tobacco control cell of Kohima.
The DIPR issued a report informing about the event, on Saturday.
During the drive, sixteen shop owners were penalised allegedly for violating the “prohibition orders of the sale of tobacco products within the hospital campus.”
The Naga Hospital was declared tobacco-free hospital on September 27 2018, the IPR stated. The shop owners were made aware of the order during the inspection drive by the officials last year, the updates added.
The seized products, both smokeless and smoking forms of tobacco, were destroyed within the hospital’s compound on the same day, the IPR stated.
The enforcement drive was carried out in accordance with a decision that was taken during a district level coordination committee meeting of the district tobacco control cell, the updates added.
