KARACHI: Sindh Chief MIniister Syed 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 Sukkr, apart from it the government would be paying monthly expenses to rehabilitate drug addicts by Anti-Narcotics Center (ANF). He took this decision during his meeting with DG ANF Major General Nasir Dilawar who called on his here at the Cm House today.
The DG ANF briefing the chief minister said that the Sindh government had given them BSAMDATRC, a 50-bed hospital only for men at Layri. The provincial government gives Rs500,000 grant to the center to meet salary and other expenditures.
The chief minister said that the hospital must be upgraded in terms of beds and rehabilitation facilities for women also.
On this the DG ANF said that they have started construction of the hospital with another 100 bed so it would be a 150 bed hospital and rehabilitation center when completed but there was shortage of funds to complete the project.
Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah approved Rs40 million to complete the project and doubled the monthly grant from Rso.5 million to Rs1 million and urged the DG to complete the project because “I want too inaugurate as soon as possible. “We need to rehabilitate drug addicts in the province, including women and this good would be good facility,” he said.
Syed Murad Ali Shah also said that there was a need of another drug edicts rehabilitation center in Sukkur also to cater to the needs of Northern and Southern Sindh .
The DG said that they have already been given land by the Sindh government but Rs5 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 chief minister 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.
