21 drug rehabilitation centres coming up in Punjab: Health Secy
Chandigarh, Sep 3 (PTI) Punjab government today said that 21 rehabilitation centres would be coming up in the state, which is facing drug menace, to bring drug addicts back to the mainstream of society. "A total of 21 rehabilitation centres comprising of 50 beds each are coming up in the state for which most of the staff has already been recruited," Punjab's Health and Family Welfare Principal Secretary Vini Mahajan said here. These centres will play a major role in bringing drug addicts to the mainstream. After de-addiction, the patients are shifted to these centres where they are given vocational training along with an opportunity for indoor and outdoor sports activities, Mahajan said. Also de-addiction and rehabilitation societies have been constituted in all districts of Punjab under the chairmanship of the concerned Deputy Commissioners, she said. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had earlier said that his government was fighting a "war" on drug menace in the state
