JALALABAD (Pajhwok): At least 200 drug addicts were rounded up on the first day of a campaign kicked off in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday, an official said.
Naqibullah Rahimi, a spokesman for the Public Health Department, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the drug addicts’ collection and treatment campaign was launched in cooperation with the Anti-narcotics Department.
He said 200 drug addicts were collected on the first day of the campaign from different areas of Jalalabad and sent to a 170-bed rehabilitation center.
Rahimi added the addicts would be kept in the facility for 40 days in order . . .
