In a six-week province-wide crackdown, the Punjab Health Commission intensified enforcement against illegal practitioners, carrying out raids at 3,860 suspected clinics and sealing 998 unlicensed centers to protect patients from unsafe treatment.
Authorities marked 2,286 facilities for ongoing monitoring while inspectors found 346 clinics that had been closed, moved or converted to other businesses. Operations were conducted across both urban and rural areas with the majority of actions recorded in Lahore, where teams inspected 645 sites and sealed 217 illegal clinics.
Other notable results included 239 visits in Faisalabad leading to 62 closures and 155 visits in Khanewal after which 52 centers were shut. Significant enforcement also closed 48 clinics in Sheikhupura, 47 in Kasur, 46 in Multan, 39 in Rawalpindi, 37 in Gujranwala, 36 in Bahawalpur, 33 in Sialkot and 30 each in Pakpattan and Sargodha, with further actions reported from Attock, Bhawalnagar, Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh, Narowal, Okara, Rahim Yar Khan, Rajanpur, Toba Tek Singh, Vehari and other districts.
Chief Executive Officer Dr Muhammad Saqib Aziz said the campaign is a core part of the commission’s strategy to eliminate quackery and safeguard public health. He emphasised that facilities flagged for monitoring will be re-inspected to ensure illegal practice does not resume and that only registered, licensed medical practitioners provide services.
The Punjab Health Commission said it will maintain close coordination with district administrations to continue disciplinary measures, improve standards of care, enforce regulations and ensure patient protection. Citizens were urged to choose only PHC-registered and licensed clinics and to report any suspicion of quackery to the commission immediately.
To date the commission has completed 246,529 inspections, sealed 69,045 illegal centres and helped push more than 30,600 unqualified practitioners out of illegal practice as part of its sustained anti-quackery campaign.
