ORMOC CITY, June 28 --City Mayor Richard Gomez has
confirmed that the Manila-based business group, Filipino-Chinese Chamber of
Commerce and Industry (FCCCI), has given its commitments to help build a drug
rehabilitation in this city.
For now, the drug rehabilitation center by the
Fil-Chinese business group is being planned to accommodate medium and high risk
drug surrenderers in the city, Gomez said in an interview.
Interventions for the identified moderate-and
high-risk drug surrenderers, particularly facility-based rehabilitation
program, have yet to start as the program implementors are still waiting for
the construction of the facility.
The city’s drug rehab program are presently
contained in their respective villages and caters to low risk drug surrenderers
who are managed through community-based program and even residential-based
program.
Gomez said the FCCCI had yet to provide them the
amount, however, they would be meeting soon to identify the location for the
drug rehab facility, as well as its design and program.
The city government itself has long ago prepared
modules for a comprehensive drug rehab program while the police continue its
documentation of drug surrenderers needing government intervention.
Meanwhile, aside from the drug rehab facility,
Ormoc is also set to receive five two-classroom school buildings donation from
FCCCI. It is said that this will be the first for the city to receive such a
donation from the Filipino-Chinese business group. (Ahlette C. Reyes/PNA))
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