DC directs to review feasibility of drugs rehabilitation center.

ABBOTTABAD -- Deputy Commissioner (DC) Abbottabad Tariq Salam Marwat Thursday issued instructions to the Health Department

to review and report on the feasibility of setting up a rehabilitation center for drug addicts at Dadar.

He expressed these views while chairing a meeting regarding drug and narcotics control. In the meeting, the plan for mental and physical treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts was discussed under the government policy.

Apart from this, the role of various departments including health and social welfare, excise, police department and civil society organizations were also discussed in the meeting.

It was agreed to review the current situation and identify the areas of improvement with the cooperation of social organizations, the private sector, and welfare organizations and set a plan of action.

The Deputy Commissioner said that in the recent past, the large-scale campaign against ice drugs and other narcotics by the police department could help in...

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