PHC, DAP to improve rehab centres

The Punjab Healthcare Commission and Drug Advisory Program (DAP) of the Colombo Plan will cooperate for monitoring of the quality of care in the addiction treatment centres of the province.  A meeting was held here on Friday at the PHC office between the Commission’s management and Senior Advisor DAP Colombo Plan Muhammad Ayub. The PHC team, led by Director Clinical Governance and Organisational Standards Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Salariya. Director Licensing Dr Muhammad Anwar Janjua and others were also present on the occasion.  Dr Salariya briefed the visiting delegate on mandate and working of the PHC, especially on the ongoing campaign against substandard addiction treatment centres, which were failing to provide quality care, and were reportedly abusing the helpless addicts under the garb of treatment.–Staff Reporter

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