The Ministry of Health has demanded by letter to the rector of the Rey Juan Carlos I University (URJC) and the Spain Health Foundation to “evaluation their participation and involvement” in a congress that’s dedicated to new tobacco merchandise, reminiscent of digital cigarettes, a convention that needs to be held on the Faculty of Health Sciences of the URJC.
In a double letter, to which Efe has had entry, the overall director of Public Health of the Ministry of Health, Pilar Aparicio, calls for the rector of the URJC, Javier Ramos, and the Fundación España Salud to not collaborate on this congress to ” keep away from adverse repercussions for the well being coverage of our nation and in compliance with our worldwide commitments derived from the applying of the Framework Convention”.
Both the WHO Framework Agreement on Tobacco Control signed by Spain and the agreements of the Ministry with the autonomies within the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System warn of the well being dangers of vaping and restrict interactions with the tobacco business and the brand new manufacturers of digital cigarettes.
“The Convention obliges the Parties to guard public well being insurance policies from business pursuits and different vested pursuits of the tobacco business, which has carried out an impressive and decided strategic funding worldwide in these merchandise, modern and associated, to advertise them as low-risk options with out this having the mandatory scientific proof,” Aparicio reminded them.
The controversial congress, which needs to be held on February 23 on the URJC Faculty of Health Sciences, is known as “Opportunities within the battle towards smoking: A worldwide imaginative and prescient of Science” and in its promotion, because it seems On the web site of the Spain Health Foundation, this well being entity, the Dual Medicine Society and the Rey Juan Carlos I University seem as organizers, with the help of the Platform for the discount of hurt from smoking, associated to the tobacco business.
URJC sources have already superior that though he was anticipated to take part within the opening of the occasion, the rector has distanced himself and has given orders in order that nobody from the college participates within the congress, leaving it within the arms of the brand new dean of the Faculty of Ciencias de la Salud determine if, inside a number of days of the dedication, the placement of the congress could be modified.
From the college they admit the “error” of getting accepted to host the occasion, a choice of the outgoing dean, Carmen Gallardo, who tomorrow Monday can be relieved by retirement by Carlos Goicoechea, and so they have needed to make it clear that at no time have they been a part of the group of the pro-tobacco day.
For his half, the technical director of the Spain Health Foundation, Javier Vila, has additionally distanced himself from the group of the congress however has defended the “freedom” of participation of the entity in order that the physician in Chemistry from the University of Valencia, Miguel de la Guardia, can current a commissioned research that analyzes the persistence of the results of tobacco within the urine.
On the web site of the Fundación España Salud, eminent medical doctors and even former Health Ministers seem as founding members of the entity. María Neira, director of Public Health on the WHO, additionally appeared, who has requested that each her {photograph} and the WHO emblem be faraway from the net when she discovered of the help of this basis for the day to advertise vaping.
The president of the National Committee for Smoking Prevention (CNPT), Andrés Zamorano, reminded Efe that “a number of the audio system have participated in occasions in collaboration with Philip Morris.”
“Tobacco hurt discount insurance policies have been hijacked by the tobacco business itself. Harm discount methods are Public Health methods and needs to be carried out considering the denormalization of the consumption of each basic flamable tobacco and new merchandise reminiscent of heated tobacco, digital cigarettes or nicotine luggage”, defined Zamorano.
For his half, the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Tobacco Control and head of the Tobacco Control Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology, Esteve Fernández, has additionally expressed his “concern about this new interference” from the tobacco business “beneath the supposed picture of a scientific occasion”.