Kolkata: The carcass meat scare has made the state health department pull up its socks. The food safety department is all set to issue a notice to all district health officials to keep a vigil on meat being sold or supplied in their respective area.
“Instructions will be issued to all concerned to keep a tab of source and quality of meat sold, supplied or served in all districts to rule out circulation of carcass meat,” said a source in Swasthya Bhawan.
Hospitals too are leaving no stone unturned to ensure that the meat served to its patients is of quality.
In all hospital the kitchens are run on contract by a second party. Even if it is a practice to acquire fresh meat by those running the kitchen, hospital authorities are leaving no stone unturned to check the quality.
“The person who is running the kitchen in our hospital is on the job for 20 years without any bad track record. But this time with carcass meat scare doing the rounds we are double checking again on the quality and the source from where meat is acquired,” said Dr PB Chakraborty, medical superintendent and vice principal at Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital.
In all hospital the kitchens are run on contract by a second party. Even if it is a practice to acquire fresh meat by those running the kitchen, hospital authorities are taking no chances this time.
“No frozen meat used by the kitchen in preparing food for the patients. But given the kind of situation we are keeping a stricter vigil on the kind of meat being served to our patients,” said Dr Suddhadhan Batabyal, principal RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
The government hospitals in the state serve chicken preparations to patients twice a week. All hospitals have instructed the kitchen operators to keep out of frozen meat.
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