No check on eateries serving unhygienic food outside hospitals

Amritsar, 

The sale of unhygienic food outside government health institutions continues unabated. Heavy rush of patients at government hospitals, especially at Guru Nanak Dev Hospital and the Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs Memorial Civil Hospital, has resulted in the mushrooming of various illegal eateries.

Most of the eateries are cooking food in unhygienic conditions. A number of these eateries are running from makeshift shacks.

A large number of the eateries can be seen outside the Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs Memorial Civil Hospital. Visitors to the government hospitals said attendants of the patients often eat at these eateries as the canteens in the hospitals failed to serve good food.

A visitor to the Civil Hospital said, “The government should rope in contractors to run the canteens so that quality food could be provided to the attendants of the patients.”

The people also demanded that the Health Department should collect food samples from the eateries so that the quality of food could be improved.

District Health Officer Dr Shivkaran Singh Kahlon said to ensure the sale of better quality food was a priority. He said food samples from the eateries outside all government hospitals would be collected and action would be taken against the eateries selling unhygienic food.