Tuesday November 29, 2005
Drug rehab centres to upgrade living conditions
PADANG BESAR: About 20,000 inmates in the 28 drug rehabilitation centres nationwide can expect better living conditions, including sleeping on thicker mattresses.
National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK) deputy director-general Zamri Hamid said under the upgrading plan, concrete buildings would replace the existing wooden ones.
Security fencing had also been erected at 11 centres while the fencing of 17 other centres would be replaced next year.
“The new fencing has high security features to prevent inmates from escaping,” Zamri told reporters after launching the new facilities at the Bukit Chabang Drug Rehabilitation here yesterday.
The facilities include a visitor's room, reception area and cooperative club.
Also present was the centre’s commandant Nazer Mustaffa.
Zamri added that to date, the hostel at three centres in Sepang in Selangor, Bachok, Kelantan and Papar, Sabah, had been replaced with concrete buildings while 22 remaining hostels would be replaced next year.
“With such facilities, we hope the inmates will not feel left out and they will not take drugs again,” he said.
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