SINDH CM ALLOCATES Rs50m FOR UP-GRADATION, NEW ANF REHABILITATION CENTERS

SINDH Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has allocated Rs45 million to upgrade Benazir Shaheed ANF Medical Drug Addicts Treatment & Rehabilitation Center, Lyari and construct a similar center in Sukkur. The government will also be paying monthly expenses to rehabilitate drug addicts in the Anti-Narcotics Center (ANF).

He took this decision during a meeting with ANF DG Major General Nasir Dilawar who called on him at the Chief Minister House on Wednesday.

“Sindh government has constructed Benazir Shaheed drug addicts centre, a 50-bed hospital, for men from Layri and the provincial government gives Rs500,000 grant to the center to meet salary and other expenditures,” ANF DG told the CM. The CM said that the hospital must be upgraded in terms of beds and rehabilitation facilities for women also.

The DG told him that construction work and provision for another 100 bed for the same hospital had been initiated but there was a shortage of funds.

The CM then approved Rs40 million to complete the project and doubled the monthly grant from Rs 0.5 million to Rs1 million and urged the DG to complete the project because “I want to inaugurate it as soon as possible.”

“We need to rehabilitate drug addicts in the province, including women and this could be a good facility,” he said.

The CM also said that there was a need drug addicts rehabilitation center in Sukkur also to cater to the needs of Northern and Southern Sindh.

The DG told him that land had been allotted for it but Rs 5 million were required to construct the rehabilitation center. The chief minister approved the amount from his special funds and urged him start the work.

The CM also said that he would provide necessary funding for other expenditures

of the Sukkur rehabilitation center. “We need these centers because rehabilitation process in the private sector is quite expensive,” he said.