PHC seals illegal rehab centre

Author: Staff Report

The Punjab Healthcare Commission on Friday sealed an illegal drug addiction and rehabilitation treatment centre, besides closing down 37 businesses of quacks.

As per the details, an unnamed illegal treatment centre on Multan Road was sealed where 22 people were kept in detention under the pretext of treatment and rehabilitation despite absence of doctors, psychiatrists and other facilities.

Three people were arrested by police.

Also, different teams of the PHC cracked down on quacks in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Bahawalnagar, Sialkot and Narowal.

The teams visited 131treatment centres and sealed 37. Among the sealed centres, 11 were in Narowal, seven each in Rawalpindi and Sialkot and six each in Bahawalnagar and Lahore.

Published in Daily Times, August 11th 2018.

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