As part of the campaign of President Duterte's war on drugs, this new facility is set to finish in November this year. Located in Nueva Ecija, northeast outside Manila, in a 10-hectare land, it will accomodate only 10,000 drug dependants. Only 1 or 2% of those more than 700, 000 users/pushers who have volunteered few months back.
Works only commenced last August and with a limited budget appropriated by the previous administration, help was sought and aid came from a Chinese tycoon. As no one could have foreseen the massive turnouts of those who volunteered, the Philippine government was overwhelmed as there were no facilities to accomodate them.
At the moment, when there will be more budget to build other facilities, other places around the country and Metro Manila is already being considered.
With 3 million users as reported, this facility can give them HOPE if they want to change, a place of refuge from the addiction that have taken them away from a life that they themselves could not have foreseen.
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A better option is for private organizations to undertake the task of rehab provision (for those who truly want it) while government gets out of the way altogether. (No government?) Voluntaryism is key. Governmental coercion and the drug war are both a bigger problem than drug addiction ever will be.
Unlike what you believe,the 16million who have voted for President Duterte like what he is doing for the country .I would have voted for him to if I could.Never have the Philippines seen this way of govt ..uncorrupted like the past politicians.I cant say its all of them but a lot of them are.If it'll continue?I hope so.Never have we seen a govt elect official who is doing what he promised he would and more.We are liking what we are seeing.I hope he wont take the same huge loan from China like the US'trillion debt.
I take comfort in the fact that many Filipinos I know denounce Duterte - for example, my buddies over at Filipino Libertarians (FB). They aren't the only ones. :-)