PHC Seals Illegal Drug Treatment Centre, 10 Inmates Evacuated

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 2nd Aug, 2018 ) :The Punjab Healthcare Commission on Thursday sealed an illegal drug treatment centre after evacuating 10 inmates.

According to details, Ferozewala police have registered an FIR, and arrested two caretakers Malik Rafique and Fauzia Naseem, while the administrator could not be arrested.

The unnamed centre was being run under the banner of the Roshan Mustaqbil Organisation by a fake doctor Ghulam Kazim.

The district administration, health authorities and police, under the supervision of the PHC, conducted a raid on a house, where 10 drug addicts were locked in jail-like conditions.

The inmates were being subjected to severe torture and kept in sub-human conditions, and were suffering from different ailments.

They were shifted to the Tehsil Headquarter Hospital Ferozewala, where they would be screened prior to their handing over to the families.