Ba Dinh Ward rehearses handling food poisoning at school

Kinhtedothi - On the afternoon of November 11, the People's Committee of Ba Dinh Ward organized a drill to investigate and handle food poisoning that affected many people in the school's canteen.

First aid simulation for students with food poisoning.

The drill is an opportunity to promote handling skills and procedures when food safety incidents occur at schools, improve management capacity of units and heads of collective kitchen management, and strictly control the selection of food suppliers.

Accordingly, a hypothetical situation was set up at the Vietnam - Cuba Primary School where many people suffered from food poisoning. Immediately after discovering the food poisoning, Ba Dinh Ward deployed a field clinic to provide emergency care, classify, and treat students right at the school.

Along with medical examination, patient classification, care, treatment, and emergency care, the Ward Food Safety Interdisciplinary Inspection Team and the Health Station also urgently deployed activities to investigate the cause of food poisoning in the school's classification and emergency clinic and kitchen areas.

At the same time, clean, disinfect, and sterilize the kitchen area, medical room, field clinic area, restrooms, classrooms with students with poisoning, etc.

Ward leaders and school leaders give timely direction.

After a period of treatment, the health status of the students being monitored and cared for at the field clinic and classrooms has stabilized, with no new cases recorded. The school coordinated with parents to bring the students home; assigned homeroom teachers to continue to work with families to update the health status of the students after they returned home; the school assigned staff and teachers to directly coordinate with families of students with severe symptoms who were hospitalized to promptly update the situation and visit, care for, and encourage the students.

At the drill, Vice Chairman of Ba Dinh Ward People's Committee Nguyen Dan Huy said that the drill was a vivid experience, a valuable experience for each management agency, unit, and food supplier to practice and equip themselves with skills to respond and handle food poisoning cases that affect many people.

"Ba Dinh Ward determines that ensuring food safety is always an extremely important task in carrying out the mission of protecting the lives and health of people in general and students in particular" - said the Vice Chairman of Ba Dinh Ward People's Committee.

Take students with severe symptoms to the nearest hospital.

The ward leader also added that in the past time, Ba Dinh ward has continuously inspected and reviewed collective kitchens at educational institutions, traced the origin of food provided to schools, and up to now, the ward has not recorded any schools related to violating units.

In addition, the Ward People's Committee has regularly organized food safety inspections at food production and trading establishments and food service establishments in the area. Through inspections of 80 establishments, 7 establishments were found to have violated and were fined 74 million VND. In parallel with the inspection, supervision and handling of violations, the Ward People's Committee has strengthened propaganda, guidance and dissemination of knowledge on food safety to food producers, traders, food service establishments and local people.

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