LAHORE: Officials from the health care commission along with police officers raided a private rehabilitation hospital in Gujjar Pura area on Tuesday and recovered nearly 350 individuals being held at the facility.
According to police sources, the addicts were admitted to the facility under the impression they would be rehabilitated against heavy payments. However, those admitted to the facility were being provided with the very substances they were trying to kick the habit of abusing.
In total 345 individuals were rescued from the facility.
Each wing of the facility was separated from the next with heavy metal doors, much like a prison. Patients at the facility stated that the facility even had a ‘torture cell’ where they were taken and tortured and beaten till they were unconscious.
The rescued individuals, according to health department officials, are being shifted to the mental hospital where they will be identified and diagnosed before either being released to their families or being kept on site for further treatment.
