The Turkish anti-addiction nonprofit group Green Crescent’s week, marked between March 1-7 this yr, was spent accumulating support for the quake-hit areas in a number of branches, together with within the northwestern province of Tekirdağ, whereas the seminar to beat smoking addictions was organized at a hospital in Gaziantep on Tuesday.
After the earthquakes, which had been described as ”the catastrophe of the century” and affected 11 provinces, numerous support was despatched to the earthquake victims from all around the nation.
In addition to the help despatched, the funds and ready supplies for the Green Crescent (Yeşilay) Week celebrated within the first week of March had been additionally despatched to the earthquake zone, whereas moreover the group additionally tries to offer psychological help to the earthquake victims by means of the road created.
Yeşilay Tekirdağ Branch President Zafer Soykırlı mentioned, “At this stage, our Green Crescent headquarters has arrange the quantity 444 98 01 for our residents who’re psychologically affected, and in the intervening time we’ve a complete of 105 Green Crescent Counseling Centers all through Türkiye.”
Our clinics, psychologists and social help service specialists can be found at these facilities. “When our psychologically affected citizens call 444 98 01, our clinics, psychologists and social service specialists all over the country will make the necessary evaluations and try to heal their wounds,” he mentioned.
Stating that they held these conferences on the Tekirdağ Green Crescent Branch and Tekirdağ Green Crescent Consultancy Center, Soykırlı mentioned: “This week is the Green Crescent Week, however after all, we are going to overcome the troubled days we’re in collectively. Due to this example, we’ve shifted all of the actions in our Green Crescent Week to the earthquake zone.”
“We transferred all our budgets to our earthquake victims with the instructions of our headquarters. We tried to participate in donation campaigns when we could. We are here to support the earthquake survivors,” he underlined.
On the opposite hand, in Gaziantep, one of many provinces affected by the catastrophe, an occasion named “Don’t be addicted, be healthy” was held Tuesday inside the framework of Green Crescent Week to assist folks give up smoking.
At the occasion held at Medical Point Gaziantep Hospital, chest illness specialist Dr. Demet Çetin defined the hurt of smoking and the way folks can kick the behavior. Participating within the occasion, Medical Point Gaziantep Hospital Chief Physician Dr. Ekber Şahin introduced that they’ll reward the personnel who give up smoking.
“March 1-7 is celebrated as Green Crescent Week. In this context, we have a beautiful slogan ‘don’t be addicted, be healthy.’ Cigarette smoking is one of the addictions that affect our lives the most. This addiction harms both our personal health and the economy,” Şahin said, adding that as an institution they plan ”to reward employees who quit smoking.”
Through the occasion and informational presentation, Dr. Çetin identified that smoking is without doubt one of the most dangerous habits and causes the dying of a whole lot of 1000’s of individuals on this planet yearly. ”Cigarettes include poisonous substances, and greater than 70% of them are most cancers inflicting.”
”The precedence in smoking cessation is pharmacological therapy strategies and psychological help. We advocate each collectively for the therapy of smoking dependancy,” she mentioned.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
