LAHORE - The Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) has sealed 112 illegal treatment centres across the province. As per details, the PHC teams checked 1,290 centres in 19 cities during the last two weeks. Out of these centres, the nature of business had been changed at 389 quackery outlets, while on 55 centres, qualified physicians had started providing treatment to the patients.
Major actions were taken in Lahore and Rawalpindi where 14 and 12 centres were closed down respectively. In other cities, nine centres were shut down in Sargodha, eight in Narowal, Vehari and Toba Tek Singh each, seven in Sahiwal, and six in Sialkot, Faisalabad, Muzaffargarh and Bahawalpur each. In Lahore, medical centres including Shahid Dental Clinic, Rehmani Clinic, Gulshan Tufail Clinic, Waqas Pharmacy, Yaseen Sanyasi, Al-Rehman Dental Clinic, Kaliar Medical Store, Sajjad Homoeo Clinic, Hafiz Dental Clinic, Azeem Medical Complex, Ali Health Clinic, Shahid Clinic, Yasir Clinic and Shahid Medical Centre were closed down. The spokesperson stated that the PHC had so far visited more than 109,000 treatment centres, shut down 34, 441 while 25,928 quacks had changed their businesses.