The Punjab Healthcare Commission has sealed 112 illegal treatment centres. As per details, the PHC enforcement teams had checked 1,290 centres in 19 cities during the last two weeks.
Out of these, businesses had been changed on 389 quackery outlets, while on 55, qualified physicians had started providing treatment facilities to the patients.
Major actions were taken in Lahore and Rawalpindi where 14 and 12 centres respectively were closed down. In other cities, 9 were shuttered in Sargodha, 8 each in Narowal, Vehari and Toba Tek Singh, Sahiwal 7, and 6 each in Sialkot, Faisalabad, Muzaffargarh and Bahawalpur.
In Lahore, Shahid Dental Clinic, Rehmani Clinic, Gulshan Tufail Clinic, Waqas Pharmacy, Yaseen Sanyasi, Al-Rehman Dental Clinic, Kaliar Medical Store, Sajjad Homoeo Clinic, Hafiz Dental Clinic, Azeem Medical Complex, Ali Health Clinic, Shahid Clinic, Yasir Clinic and Shahid Medical Centre was closed down.
The spokesperson has also added that the PHC has so far visited over 109,000 treatment centres, shuttered 34, 441, while 25,928 quacks have changed their businesses.
