Bathinda, October 22
The Health Department has geared up to provide emergency services in times of crisis on Diwali. Doctors have been alerted to be available on call in an emergency while private NGOs have dedicated the ambulances with round-the-clock services at different spots in the city.
The district health department had instructed all the doctors and staff to be ready on a single call and had checked its medicine stock. Civil Surgeon, Bathinda, had also instructed the senior health officials to manage the duties of the staff on the festival day to tackle the crisis situation if occurred.
It is noteworthy that some private NGOs had also offered to dedicate their services of private ambulances placed at different places in the city to tackle crisis situation on night of Diwali.
“We have about 12 ambulances (108) and all have been actively given instruction to remain stationed at their respective stations. We welcome the move if private NGOs are also providing the free help to common man but we have sufficient ambulance and staff to tackle the situation of crisis. I appeal the public especially children to avoid consumption of sweets and crackers. Children if adamant on using crackers, should use the fireworks under the surveillance of their parents and carefully. Precautions should be taken before using the fireworks. Our teams have been inspecting on sweet shops regularly.”
Sweets under surveillance of food safety team
A team under the surveillance of District Food Safety Officer are conducting inspections of sweet shops in Bathinda district for the last two days while it had conducted regular raids on sweet shops ahead of Diwali season.
Food inspector, Amritpal Singh, said, “We are inspecting the number of shops and destroyed the sweets that were in not fit for consumption or were kept in unhygienic condition. Yesterday, too, we inspected the shops. No such product was found that we could have suspected as adulterated. We had conducted raids in almost all the major and minor shops that are famous for selling sweets. Hard instructions have been given to every sweet seller to keep the sweets in hygienic way and in a proper environment. No one will be spared if found with sub standard sweets.”
Its noteworthy that district health department had conducted a numerous raids ahead of Diwali this year and had claimed to conduct raids on about more than 130 shops in Bathinda, including all the blocks of district.
The district health department had also claimed that it had earned about Rs 7 lakh by conducting raids since 2011 in Bathinda and numbers of minor cases that are found with sub standard food stuff are sub judice in the court of Adjudicating Officer-cum-ADC (General), Bathinda, whereas major cases that includes adulteration are pending in local courts.
“We are prepared for circumstance and a stringent action would be taken against the sweet sellers if found at error. Our team is keeping a vigil round the clock over the district and sources in the market are regularly informing us about the sweet sellers if any erroneous,” added the food inspector.
The Health Department has geared up to provide emergency services in times of crisis on Diwali. Doctors have been alerted to be available on call in an emergency while private NGOs have dedicated the ambulances with round-the-clock services at different spots in the city.
The district health department had instructed all the doctors and staff to be ready on a single call and had checked its medicine stock. Civil Surgeon, Bathinda, had also instructed the senior health officials to manage the duties of the staff on the festival day to tackle the crisis situation if occurred.
It is noteworthy that some private NGOs had also offered to dedicate their services of private ambulances placed at different places in the city to tackle crisis situation on night of Diwali.
“We have about 12 ambulances (108) and all have been actively given instruction to remain stationed at their respective stations. We welcome the move if private NGOs are also providing the free help to common man but we have sufficient ambulance and staff to tackle the situation of crisis. I appeal the public especially children to avoid consumption of sweets and crackers. Children if adamant on using crackers, should use the fireworks under the surveillance of their parents and carefully. Precautions should be taken before using the fireworks. Our teams have been inspecting on sweet shops regularly.”
Sweets under surveillance of food safety team
A team under the surveillance of District Food Safety Officer are conducting inspections of sweet shops in Bathinda district for the last two days while it had conducted regular raids on sweet shops ahead of Diwali season.
Food inspector, Amritpal Singh, said, “We are inspecting the number of shops and destroyed the sweets that were in not fit for consumption or were kept in unhygienic condition. Yesterday, too, we inspected the shops. No such product was found that we could have suspected as adulterated. We had conducted raids in almost all the major and minor shops that are famous for selling sweets. Hard instructions have been given to every sweet seller to keep the sweets in hygienic way and in a proper environment. No one will be spared if found with sub standard sweets.”
Its noteworthy that district health department had conducted a numerous raids ahead of Diwali this year and had claimed to conduct raids on about more than 130 shops in Bathinda, including all the blocks of district.
The district health department had also claimed that it had earned about Rs 7 lakh by conducting raids since 2011 in Bathinda and numbers of minor cases that are found with sub standard food stuff are sub judice in the court of Adjudicating Officer-cum-ADC (General), Bathinda, whereas major cases that includes adulteration are pending in local courts.
“We are prepared for circumstance and a stringent action would be taken against the sweet sellers if found at error. Our team is keeping a vigil round the clock over the district and sources in the market are regularly informing us about the sweet sellers if any erroneous,” added the food inspector.
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