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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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ILOILO City – Most of the 260 drug dependents undergoing rehabilitation at the Community Change Center here might finish the program early.
The city health officer noted their “big transformation.”
“Nami na sila, tinlo na [kag] naga-participate na sa sharing,” Dr. Bernard Caspe told city hall reporters. “We are planning nga imbes six months, three months lang siguro ma-graduate na sila.”
The patients were among the more or less 2,000 self-confessed drug dependents and/or peddlers who turned themselves in to the police due to the government’s intensified antidrug campaign.
They make up the first batch. Their rehabilitation started Sept. 4.
If they “continue to show positive changes,” city hall might hold their graduation at end of November, Caspe said.
He added that they are now preparing the second batch.
Meanwhile Caspe said two of the first-batch patients tested positive for drug use.
“Ginapa-confirm pa subong ang duha ka nagpositibo,” he said. “Ipaidalum pa sila sa ikaduha nga hugnat sang test, kag diri na mabal-an kon ano ang dapat himuon, depende sa resulta.”/PN
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