Construction done by August — DILG
BURGOS REHAB CENTER
THE construction of the Pangasinan Drug Rehabilitation Center in Barangay San Vicente, Burgos town is now almost complete, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) provincial office announced on July 20.
Shiela Marie Andales, Local Government Operations Officer V of the DILG provincial office, told the KBP Forum that based on her office’s monitoring, the facility is set to be completed by the end of July or first week of August.
Andales, quoting Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Rhodyn Oro, said when completed, the center will initially accommodate 100 in-house moderately-affected drug dependents only.
The center, however, will soon have facilities for severely affected drug dependents.
The drug rehabilitation center, located on a two-hectare land in Burgos donated by the heirs of the late Burgos mayor Demetrio Cabiles, is surrounded by a high perimeter fence with cyclone wire to be put on top, an administration building, a dormitory for the staff and a separate dormitory for the in -house patients, a big social hall, kitchen, lavatory and others.
Actually, construction of the facility started during the administration of then Governor Rafael Colet in 1992 but when Colet lost his reelection bid, his successor Aguedo Agbayani did not continue with the project.
Gov. Amado Espino III who finally secured the deed of donation of the property to the province from the heirs of the late Cabiles, led by his widow Belen and son Demetrio Jr. sometime last year.
There were initial infrastructures already built in the area through the initiative of then Vice Governor Gonzalo Duque, who headed the Provincial Anti-drug Abuse Council under Colet, but these deteriorated through the years when the project was discontinued.
There are 19,000 confessed drug users who surrendered to the police in Pangasinan, under Oplan Double Barrel and Oplan Barrel Reloaded.
Some of those who surrendered are already undergoing community-based drug rehabilitation in their respective towns and cities under the Oplan Masa Masid program. (PIO)
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