PDEA-6 opens 5th Balay Silangan in Negros

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD City – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-6 unveiled on Friday, Dec. 10, its fifth Balay Silangan Reformation Center in Negros Occidental and the 46th in Western Visayas.

PDEA-6 assistant director Donelyn Hemedez and members of PDEA-Negros Occidental, along with Chief-of-Staff Katherine Muguad in behalf of Mayor Maria Gina Lizares, led the launching and inauguration of the Balay Silangan Reformation Center situated at Barangay 3, Crisis Center, Sipalay City.

A signing of Manifesto of Commitment was also held.

Balay Silangan is a community-based reformation program aimed at rehabilitating drug surrenderers across the country.

Muguad lauded everyone who rendered their efforts to have such kind of facility in the city.

She also thanked the partner agencies for the collective efforts in addressing the problem against illegal drugs that affects the peace and order in the community.

The towns of Pulupandan, Hinoba-an, and Don Salvador Benedicto had also opened their respective centers for drug reformists this year.