LAHORE: While continuing with its clampdown on illegal treatment centres, the Punjab Healthcare Commission has carried out a crackdown in 26 districts and closed down 511 outlets of quacks. The PHC enforcement teams had conducted raids on 2,174 treatment centres during the last four weeks. They found 84 qualified physicians treating patients in the previously marked quacks’ centres. Also, the teams have started surveillance of a little over a thousand centres. Out of the 26 districts, amaximum number of 75 centres were sealed in Faisalabad. Among other districts where major clampdowns and closures took place, included 37 in Rawalpindi, Nankana Sahab 36, Pakpattan 30, Gujranwala 29, Sialkot 26, Lahore 24, Sheikhupura 22 and 21 in Okara. Online
