China Helps Building Drug Rehab Center
China helps building – China, in recent reports, has already announced that it will be helping the Philippines in its ‘war on drugs’, and now, the Asian Giant is now building a drug rehabilitation center in Northern Luzon, as confirmed by Malacañang.
In a report by PhilStar, Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said that the said construction of a drug rehab center was part of the so-called phase two of the Duterte administration’s war on drugs.
According to the report, the said phase two is focused on the operations against drug lords rehabilitation of drug dependents, and the taking of legal actions against these illegal drug-related cases.
China, through Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua, has expressed its interest in helping the Philippines end the drug crisis in the Philippines.
The Presidential Spokesman still won’t confirm that the said rehabilitation center would be built at Fort Ramon Magsaysay, in Palayan, Nueva Ecija – the largest military reservation in the Philippines and it is also a training ground for the Philippine Army.
The report added that President Duterte already had visited a number of military camps all over the country to ask for a lot where he could build drug rehabilitation centers.
There is an insufficient supply of rehabilitation centers in the Philippines after there are more than 600,000 drug users who have surrendered to the authorities just after the two months of office by President Duterte.
It is also said that local governments have been struggled to address the scarcity and ended sending these people back to their homes due to lack of facilities to cater them.
Although, there are other government units which offer exercise programs, and doing community volunteer work.
The President already claimed that there are about six million Filipinos who have been using shabu.
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