Further efforts to open two more methadone treatment facilities

11:11, 03/11/2017

(ĐN) – Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Hoa Hiep of Dong Nai provincial People's Committee on November 2 worked with Department of Health and the districts of Xuan Loc and Cam My on plans to set up two more methadone treatment facilities in the localities.

Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Hoa Hiep speaks at the working session.

(ĐN) – Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Hoa Hiep of Dong Nai provincial People’s Committee on November 2 worked with Department of Health and the districts of Xuan Loc and Cam My on plans to set up two more methadone treatment facilities in the localities.

As of October-end, some 2,745 people who had drug addictions have been treated with methadone at six clinics across the province.

Two facilities in Cam My and Xuan Loc districts are expected to put into operation between the end of 2017 and first quarter of 2018.

Reported by N.T