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)