Comprehensive hospitals to help treat drug addicts

China intends to set up provincial-level comprehensive hospitals nationwide to treat drug addicts who suffer from severe diseases during compulsory detoxification, according to the Ministry of Justice.

To staff the hospitals, local justice departments will recruit senior and experienced doctors, nurses and pharmacists, along with some part-time professors and associate professors from provincial top-tier hospitals, said Cao Xuejun, head of the ministry's Drug Rehabilitation Administration Department.

All the construction expenses will be paid by the national or local authorities.