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G B Pant’s toilet block converted canteen seized
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Saturday, 29 March 2014
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Food cooked in this canteen was most unhygienic: Health
Officer
Challan filed against canteen owner, CEO cantonment board
Srinagar: The Municipal Magistrate
Srinagar Khursheed-ul-Islam along with the Health Officer of Srinagar Municipal
Corporation (SMC) on Saturday seized the canteen of G B Pant hospital here.
Dr Shafqat Khan, Health Officer SMC, told KNS that during
their inspection of the canteen it was found that food was prepared in rusted
pots and prohibited colours were also used therein. The health officer said
that the food is being prepared in such rusted pots that it can cause diseases
like cancer. “Even animals could not be fed in those utensils. The gullible
people from peripheries are being cheated,” Dr Khan added.
According to sources the Medical Superintendent (MS) of
the hospital was called on spot who said the person has been who is running the
canteen has been allotted the canteen by the cantonment board. Sources told KNS
that despite the repeated requests made by the hospital administration the
canteen owner would not take cognizance of the matter saying that he was under
the territorial and administrative jurisdiction of the cantonment board as per
the memorandum of understanding between the state government and the cantonment
board.
“And also he was paying the rent to the cantonment board
and not to the hospital. He had got rent agreement and the authority letter
from the cantonment board. Thereby the hospital administration was not allowed
to interfere into the canteen functioning. Citing similar arrangement between
the medical shops in and around the hospital and the cantonment board, where
the hospital amid nitration is not allowed to interfere,” sources added.
The MS G.B Pant hospital has added that the canteen owner
has converted the newly constructed toilet block into canteen and has
encroached upon the road as he is affiliated with some political party. The
hospital administration has already taken the matter with the CM.
The canteen has been seized on spot and challan has been
filed against the erring canteen owner and the chief executive officer of the
cantonment board. The people present on spot complained to the municipal
magistrate and the health officer that they have developed many diseases due after
eating the food in the canteen which now stand seized by the municipal
magistrate. (KNS)
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