CPDRC to have psychiatric facility soon
The Cebu Provincial Detention and
Byron Garcia, Capitol consultant on security and penology, said that the putting up of such facility was hatched after a Filipino doctor based in the
Garcia said that the inmates’ dances are form of therapy from which researchers can get psychological data.
These data will be used in the
US-based doctors will put up a ward complete with equipment and will train specialists to be assigned at the said facility. The provincial government may possibly provide for the salary of the trained specialists, though the proposal has yet to be finalized.
Meanwhile, the 1,500 inmates will have another one-and-a-half non-stop dance show today at
The show is for free but donations are welcome.
So far, donations have already reached a total of P2.8 million since they started two years ago. The latest of which were from former Senator Agapito “Butz” Aquino and the Court of First Instance Multipurpose Cooperative, with P150,000 each, or a total of P300,000.
Donations, Garcia said, all go to the individual bank account of the dancing inmates. — Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon/MEEV
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