Drug rehab centre halts patient intake
Mom Kunthear | Publication date 14 December 2020 | 22:01 ICT

Drug rehabilitation centre Orkas Knhom has temporarily stopped receiving victims who seek treatment and rehabilitation.

Currently, as many as 2,000 victims are being treated at the centre.

Phnom Penh Department of Social Affairs and Orkas Knhom director Mom Chandany said on December 14 that this temporary halt was due to overcrowding at the centre.

In other words, she requested drug victims to get treatment service at health centres in other referral hospitals in Phnom Penh and provinces.

“But when necessary, when the police send victims to it in an emergency, I will consider receiving them. But they are to be put in separate rooms for 14 days,” she said.

Chandany will ask to allow those who have gotten rid of their addiction to return home and she will wait and see whether the November 28 community incident will be better.

The Orkas Knhom urged parents to welcome their children whose health is better to go home. The centre also instructed parents about how to educate and support their children at home.
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