According to details, since the Supreme Court orders in mid-April, the PHC teams had visited 11,600 treatment centres and sealed 3,850 quacks’ outlets. As per census, out of the visited outlets, 3,116 quacks had quit quackery to start other businesses. On the other hand, the district administrations had also inspected 2,785premises and sealed 1,342 businesses of quacks according to the PHC Act 2010. Cumulatively, both the PHC and district authorities had visited 14,470 centres and closed down 5,192 businesses of quacks.
The PHC teams had sealed the maximum number of 714 quackery outlets in Lahore, while 249 each in Faisalabad and Kasur, in Sheikhupura 248, 151 in Sargodha, Sahiwal 136, Muzaffargarh 135, Toba Tek Singh 134 and 127 each in Sialkot and Rawalpindi. Also, the commission has received more than 2,200 desealing applications.
Published in Daily Times, June 25th 2018.
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