KABUL (SW): Salam Watandar’s findings indicate that a charity organization “Bayat Foundation” has distributed expired foodstuff among the needy school students in Kabul leading to food poisoning.
The foodstuff that has been distributed by the foundation in Abdull Rahman Shahid Lycee, has led to food poisoning of a number of students. The aid mainly consisted of rice and soya and was packed by Manna Packing Company while the expiring date on the packing confirms that they were outdated as long as four months.
Freshta, a mother of a poisoned student, told Salam Watandar that her son was given 5 parcels of rice and soya but he got diarrhea after eating them. Freshta said that she spent almost afn 7000 so far on treatment of her son.
Nooriya, another mother, told Salam Watandar the same story, saying that her son, who is a student at Abdull Rahman Shahid Lycee, was provided with some packs of rice. Nooriya’s sons also got sick as they ate the rice.
Doctors in private clinics say that expired foods have caused the sickness.
To further follow the story, Salam Watandar’s research team sent a pack of Bayat Foundation’s aid package to the Ministry of Public Health for further investigation.
Hamid Formuli, the acting director at Quality Control department of Ministry of Public Health, has confirmed that the product was outdated. He added that expired foodstuff is unsafe for health and Ministry of Public Health does not permit license to anyone charged with selling expired goods.
Formuli vowed that the MoPH would deal with all the perpetrators.
Replying to a raised question about the expired foodstuff being distributed among the school students in Kabul, Mujib Mehrdad, the spokesperson for Ministry of Education said that the Ministry of Education was unaware of the matter.
He added the any kind of food distribution in schools is illegal without being permitted by the Ministry of Education. Mehrdad said that no complaint has been submitted with them in this regard.
The investigative report team of Salam Watanar tried to contact the Bayat Foundation, yet no one responded.
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