Caging humans in rehab
IFP Bureau6 Sept 2022
Some centres have become booming business for some former addicts, and the SOP is followed more in violation, but concerned authorities simply do not seem to find time for monitoring these centres.
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Some centres have become booming business for some former addicts, and the SOP is followed more in violation, but concerned authorities simply do not seem to find time for monitoring these centres.
Anouba Mangal is the first de-addiction centre in the state which is directly run by the Social Welfare Department, Government of Manipur.
'In the past 10 years, it has been reported that around 10 PUDs were tortured to death in various drug treatment centres'.
IFP Impact: Manipur Social Welfare director Ngangom Uttam Singh said that an 11-member committee has been set up to formulate state-specific guidelines for private de-addiction centres in the state.
IFP Editorial: It is the responsibility of the Social Welfare department to monitor the functioning of all de-addiction or rehabilitation centres in the state, and all those centres operating without proper sanction or expertise should be disbanded.
YFPHR appealed to the government to cancel registration of rehab centres that are found violating human rights.
'The non-funded treatment centres rely solely on the meagre monthly fees from the patients. So, the guideline meant for funded rehabilitation centres under a central government scheme on non-funded private drug treatment centres cannot be accepted by the private drug rehabilitation centres'.
The decision to this effect was arrived at during a discussion cum consultation meeting convened at the premises of Lamjing Meira, SUDTC, Kakching following complaints of irregularities and malpractices perpetrated by the centre in the name of rehabilitating drug users of Manipur.
In Manipur, the trend of forceful admission of a person to private de-addiction centres, citing addiction to drugs, by picking them up arbitrarily has become a new normal nowadays.
There are around 34,355 injecting drug users in the state as per the survey conducted by the Union Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry in the year 2019.
Exclusive COVID-19 treatment centres for drug users were also demanded by NGOs.
Community Network for Empowerment (CoNE) and User Society for Effective Response (USER) Manipur urged the Manipur Human Rights Commission (MHRC) to frame regulatory guidelines so as to ensure non-recurrence of human rights violation in drug rehabilitation centres.