PHC seals 83 quack clinics in a week

Commission carried out inspection of 719 treatment centres

LAHORE:

In yet another crackdown against illegal treatment centres in 10 districts of the province, the Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) claimed to have sealed at least 83 quack clinics during the past week.

The PHC spokesperson on Sunday said the commission’s teams carried out inspection of 719 treatment centres. Out of these, 22 clinics had employed qualified physicians to treat patients as opposed to the past, whereas quackery had been replaced with other businesses at 205 centres.

He said the commission would continue surveillance of 377 entities since qualified medics were providing treatment facilities at the time of the inspections.

The closed down illegal medical facilities included 12 each in Kasur and Lodharan, 11 each in Rawalpindi and Muzaffargarh, 10 each in Okara and Attock, eight in Mianwali, six in Sahiwal, two in Sargodha and one in Lahore.

“In Khangarh, a first information report (FIR) was registered against quack Muzaffar and his two sons for illegally unsealing the premises,” he added.

As per the spokesperson for the commission, the PHC has so far sealed 29,754 quack outlets, while around 18,000 persons have quit quackery during the past three years.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, December 7^th, 2020.