Amrit Pal Brar
Barnala, June 24:
Deputy Commissioner Barnala Tej Partap Singh Phoolka, on Monday, said that the Drug de-addiction centre, being run inside civil hospital Barnala, is proving beneficial for the treatment of drug addicts. He informed that as many as 941 patients have been registered for the treatment from January 2018 in the de-addiction centre and most of the patients are Indoor Patients.
He added that the trained staff at the centre admit the patients in the IPD and provide them proper treatment for few days to stabilize them.
Tej Partap Singh Phoolka ssaid that in 2018, as many as 726 patients were registered in the de-addiction centre out of which 536 were admitted for treatment and rest 190 were given medicine on daily basis from outdoor patient department (OPD).
He added that in 2019 till May, as many as 215 new patients were registered out of which 214 were admitted.
Phoolka said that DAPO, a campaign against the drugs has been started by the Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh to not only root out the drug menace, but also for rehabilitation of addicts by providing them free treatment.
He said that the authorities of private drug deaddiction centres have also been strictly instructed to ensure functioning of clinics and centres as per Standard Operating Protocol and mark daily attendance of patients.
Deputy Commissioner added that OOAT Clinics are also being run at various locations in the district to provide free treatment to the drug addicts on daily basis.
He added that in these OOAT clinics a specialist physiatrist has been appointed to provide medicines to drug addicts who himself administers the medicine to the drug addicts for proper treatment.