Drug free city project launched with cost of Rs 38.2 million
LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Law, Excise& Taxation and Finance Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman has said that Excise & Taxation Department, in collaboration with NGOs will rehabilitate the drug addicts and centers will be established at parks, grounds and footpaths in this regard.
He said that that rehabilitation centers for the addicts especially for women and children were being set up in the city to make Lahore drug free city.
These addicts will be admitted in the city hospitals where each hospital has reserved 10-beds for their treatment and rehabilitation, he added.
Talking to various delegations of doctors and NGOs, he said a drug free city project has been launched with a cost of Rs 38.228 million and under the project public awareness, development of intelligence, treatment of drug addicts, rehabilitation of drug addicts and registration of addicts’ treatment clinics were the action plan of the project.
He said that government was utilizing all available resources for implementation of anti-narcotics laws besides building public opinion against this menace; however, it was the collective responsibility of the civil society to curb this menace.
The minister said that chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (OPD), which is 4th main cause of deaths in the world and 600 million people are victims of this disease in the world, whereas, according to WHO three million people die each year in the world due to these complications.
