Six de-addiction centers closed, State Mental Health Authority issued orders

Gaggeret. Tightening the noose on the centers running shop in the name of de-addiction centers in Una district, the State Mental Health Authority has closed six centers with immediate effect. The operators of these centers will no longer be able to operate them in future. Till now 26 de-addiction centers were registered in Una district, but after the order to close six centres, the number of de-addiction centers in the district has now reduced to 20. After the operator of the de-addiction center of Bhanjal was caught on the charges of supplying Chitta in Hamirpur district, all the de-addiction centers of Una district were investigated by the inspection team under the leadership of CMO Dr. SK Verma. The inspection team found in the investigation that under the guise of drug de-addiction, some centers are being dragged only on the basis of Jugaad. In these centres, drug addicts are kept in conditions worse than animals. There is not even a provision for a medical officer in these centres.

People living in de-addiction centers do not even have regular health checkups. There was not even a record of which medicine was being given here. CMO Dr. SK Verma said that the State Mental Health Authority has ordered the closure of six centers in the district. In these, the State Mental Health Authority has issued orders to close the de-addiction centers open in Saba Foundation Gagret, Jeevan Jot Bhanjal, Wellness Home Kotlaklan, Last Door Jalgran, Jeevan Sudhar Haroli and Jeevan Jot Tabba. The de-addiction centers opened in Una district undoubtedly were opened with the aim of giving life, but the system here put some people in the throes of untimely times. Two youths have even died under suspicious circumstances in the de-addiction centers of Haroli and Gagret.