PHC seals drug addiction treatment centre

The Punjab Healthcare Commission on Monday has sealed a drug addiction treatment and rehabilitation centre for insufficient psychiatric, health and residential facilities after evacuating 21 persons.  According to details, the PHC team had conducted a raid on the Arshad Rehab Addiction Treatment Centre in Johar Town, which was functional without the requisite human resource, that is, psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, para-medical staff and insufficient facilities like the residential and emergency cover. The team evacuated 21 persons, got them examined and were handed over to their relatives prior to sealing the premises.  The spokesperson of the PHC has said that so far the Commission has conducted raids on 82 drug addiction treatment and rehabilitation centres, and evacuated 672 persons. “Out of the visited centres, 37 have been completely and six partially sealed,” he said, adding that show-cause notices had been served on 24 centres after stopping them from taking new admissions and discharging the admitted patients.

 

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