BAGUIO CITY – The Baguio City Jail-Female Dormitory (BCJ-FD) has expressed its full support to the city’s on-going and revitalized “Smoke-Free Baguio” campaign by including smoke-cessation lectures in its proposed activities for more than 100 inmates or persons deprived of liberty (PDLs).
The campaign is spearheaded by the Smoke-Free Baguio Task Force chaired by Mayor Mauricio Domogan whose members include representatives from the police force, government agencies and the private sector.
Authored by councilor Joel Alangsab, the Smoke-Free Baguio Ordinance (Ord. No. 34, series of 2017), prohibits the use, sale, distribution and advertisement of cigarettes and other tobacco products in certain places, imposing penalties and providing funds thereof.
BCJ-FD Warden April Rose Ayangwa said her office is coordinating with the Health Services Office (HSO) under Dr. Rowena Galpo to provide resource persons for the smoke-cessation lectures.
The proposed lectures will be part of the BCJ-FD’s regular activities for January to March this year that includes regular dalaws from religious groups, soap making classes, counseling sessions, theology classes, interfaith mass, volleyball games, and more.
She revealed that the BCJ-FD has garnered the Department of Health’s (DOH) Red Orchid Awards for being a tobacco-free facility in the Luzon Cluster and Regional categories for 2016 and 2017.
“We are hoping to win the prestigious awards again this year and be elevated to the DOH Red Orchid Awards hall of fame. Everybody deserves and has the right to breathe clean air,” Ayangwa stressed.**gaby keith
