Now that I am out of my blues, I just realised how politicised drug rehabilitation has become.
You have to ask the question, is it really that an American company has taken over , the length or something thing else? I think I will go with that 'something else' for now, but before that lets have a look at it...
People who have a problem with Americans taking over and imposing an american model,... think again, and know your stuff. Drug Rehabilitation Center in Himmafushi has been running the Therapeutic Model (TC) for the past few years. TC is a PURE American model. And guess what, the Co-ordinator Ali Shareef with another staff was directly trained in America by DAYTOP. And several counsellors were trained in Malysia (Pengasih)in this model , and couple more in Singapore (Pertapis) and yet a few more in Maldives itself by the Americans. So you have to think twice before you start the witch hunt, don't you think?
And if you think, that religion is going to be pushed out, I feel sorry for you. First of all, religion is a very persoanl thing, something between you and God. The other thing, the center has a mosque. Nobody can stop you from praying. and I seriously doubt that anyone is going to start up a church service in the mosque. Folks! get over you christinophobia!!!
The amount of money being spent on a client each month, That is suspiciously large. I do have my own reservations on that, and yeah the time period is a killing. You can't seriously think about giving it away for that long, I mean I am all for it for 5 years, heck een 10 year. In a field like rehabilitation, you need that much time to see if a program is working or not.
Hmmmm, I seriously wonder, whether NNCB as the governing and monitering authorty has the capacity to do so.
When I imagine NNCB I always picture a lot of puppets running amok, with their strings all knotted up.
This diameriCENAPS might be the best thing that is about to happen or the worst nightmare for Drug Rehabilitation for Maldives. Fingers crossed
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ReplyDeleteInteresting post...Hmm are they going to charge the same amount for the whole period or is it going to go up with err..inflation? I wonder.
ReplyDeleteanyone know how many actually applied to run the centre?
As for religion, I cannot picture them singing "come all ye faithful.." at Christmas..or maybe I could be wrong. It could be "Hark the herald..." :-)
Maldivian devil
ReplyDeleteNobody applied to run the center. To NNCB's credit they did advertise. So they ran after some people to get them to do it, hence the formation of DiameriCENAPS.
And the charge can go up, regardless of inflation .