BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya—The capacity of the Department of Health’s Regional Drug Rehabilitation and Treatment Center in Cagayan Valley will be doubled before the end of the year, the center’s chief said on Wednesday.
The 50-bed center, located in Barangay San Antonio in Ilagan City, Isabela, currently houses at least 10 patients, former illegal drug users needing total physical and psychological transformation.
“But this will be developed into a 100-bed capacity rehabilitation and treatment center by the end of this year to cater to our other illegal drug users, who will be screened and classified as highly and severely dependent to illegal drugs,” said Dr. Charity Canapi, RDRTC chief, during the joint meeting of the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drug Council and Provincial Peace and Order Council.
Since its opening in April this year, the two-hectare center offers dietary and workshop center, kitchen, patients quarters, lockers, multi-purpose covered court, physical fitness gym, and livelihood training center, among others.
It also offers, spiritual, psychological, mental and physical transformation activities and sessions to enable the patients in leaving their dependency on illegal drugs.