PRESENTLY 461 INMATES HAVE BEEN UNDERGOING TREATMENT IN THESE CENTRES
NewZNew (Chandigarh) : The Punjab Jails Department has achieved a major breakthrough by treating more than 22 thousands drug addicts in the 8 jails of the state by multipronged de addiction therapy that included medical treatment, psychological and sociological counselling besides through religious sermons during last one year.
The jail Minister said their efforts in this direction has borne fruits as till date 22,669 inmates have been treated successfully in these drug de addiction centres. He said that at present 461 inmates were undergoing treatment in various drug de addiction centres of 8 central jails.
He said that de addiction activities in jails have been closely supervised by the concerned jail superintendent. The minister said that in order to bring the addicted jail inmates from the scourge of drugs, holistic approach concerning ‘Mind & Body’ has been adopted which included best medical treatment by the specialist doctors and encouragement to them to play sports. He said that sports kits have been provided and the inmates becoming fond of playing different games. Mr. Thandal further said that Religious Sermons, Meditation Sessions and Yoga activities was also a regular feature to enrich the spiritual and intellectual aspects besides medical treatment to these addicted jail inmates. He said that most of meditation programmes were being conducted with the collaboration of Art of Living. He said that in this financial year Rs. 8.20 lakh has been incurred on organising religious preaching, yoga and meditation programmes.
Mr. Thandal said that these drug de addiction centres have been established in 8 central jails of Punjab located at Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Kapurthala, Ludhiana, Patiala, Bathinda, Faridkot and Ferozpur. He said that Rs. 1.78 crore has been spent for providing medicines, laboratory equipments, ECG machines, Urine/Blood testing kits etc to these drug de addiction centres.