Punjab Healthcare Commission Seals Drug-addiction Treatment Centre

The Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) has sealed a drug-addiction treatment and rehabilitation centre over insufficient psychiatric, health and residential facilities there, after evacuating 21 patients.

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Nov, 2018 ) :The Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) has sealed a drug-addiction treatment and rehabilitation centre over insufficient psychiatric, health and residential facilities there, after evacuating 21 patients.

The PHC team conducted a raid on Arshad Rehab Addiction Treatment Centre in Johar Town, which was functioning without required human resource including psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, para-medical staff and insufficient facilities.

The team evacuated 21 persons, got them examined and handed them over to their relatives prior to sealing of the premises.

A spokesperson for the PHC said that so far the Commission had conducted raids on 82 drug-addiction treatment and rehabilitation centres, and evacuated 672 persons.

"Out of the visited centres, 37 were completely and six partially sealed," he said, adding that show-cause notices were served on 24 centres.