Thimphu to get a new rehab centre

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The Youth Development Fund (YDF) has come up with a professional rehab centre for drug and alcohol dependents.

It will be launched within the next two months and will be known as the Treatment and Rehab Center for Drug and Alcohol dependents.

It was informally started last month. As an interim measure the centre is being housed at Serbithang in Thimphu. After a year or two, the centre will be permanently established in Gidakom.

The centre is being supervised and monitored by the Bhutan Narcotic Control Agency and YDF. It can accommodate about 10 people.

Source: Bhutan Broadcasting Service

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An interim rehabilitation centre will open next month while the proposal for the first fully equipped rehabilitation centre at Gidakom gets approved, say officials from the youth development fund (YDF) and Bhutan narcotics control agency (BNCA).

The one-year interim rehab centre will function in a rented house in Thimphu with 40 patients. A programme coordinator, an addiction expert and four counselors, who are presently undergoing training in India, will make up the staff. The rehab will be jointly run by YDF and BNCA. Continue reading Bhutan Government go-slow holds up rehab