LAHORE: While continuing with its crackdown on quacks, the Punjab Healthcare Commission has closed 54 backstreet fake treatment centres during the last week, says a press release.

The enforcement teams of the PHC had raided different types of treatment centres as per the census. The teams took action against 323 treatment centres, sealed 54 quackery outlets, and put 198 under surveillance, which were being operated by the qualified medics at the time of visit, but were pointed out as quacks’ centres in the census.

It was also found out that businesses had been changed on 82 centres. The maximum centres were closed down in Rawalpindi, which were 16, while the rest included 12 in Chiniot, Multan 11, Bhawana 6, Sheikhupura 5 and four in Dunyapur (Lodharan).

Among these centres, quacks were found to be posing as specialists of different diseases and general physicians, non-compliant laboratories, maternity homes, hakeems, homoeopathic doctors, opticians, dentists and others.

Published in Dawn, March 2nd, 2020