Clip accusing the kitchen of providing boarding meals in Thu Duc: Principal speaks up

Image in the clip of the kitchen

Social networks are buzzing with a number of clips accusing the kitchen providing meals for a primary school in Thu Duc City of having a freezer with a lot of meat and spoiled food mixed in.

On a fanpage with 141,000 followers on October 26, a number of photos and video clips were posted, believed to be the kitchen of Phu Huu Primary School, Phu Huu Ward, Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City... According to the content of the article, parents who visited the school kitchen had reported the visit in advance, "but were shocked to realize that with all kinds of food stored in the refrigerator waiting to be processed, in the freezer there were many types of meat and spoiled food that were put together".

Also according to the video clips above, inside this kitchen there are many types of spices, many cans of chili sauce of unknown origin, along with black soy sauce, unknown date, unknown brand...

Phu Huu Primary School, Thu Duc City, noon October 27

"This is a picture of the kitchen of the school's catering unit."

At noon on October 27, in an official exchange with many reporters at his office, Mr. Phan Thanh Phai, Principal of Phu Huu Primary School, Phu Huu Ward, Thu Duc City, affirmed: "The clip and article on social media saying that these are images in the kitchen of Phu Huu Primary School, Phu Huu Ward are incorrect, because my school does not have a kitchen. These are images filmed by parents at the unit that provides meals for the school."

"On October 25, 2023, the school had a team inspect the school's boarding food supplier, accompanied by a parent representative. After everyone finished checking, this parent stayed in the kitchen and told the staff here to open the freezers to check the frozen food inside and film these images," said Mr. Phai.

Mr. Phan Thanh Phai

"This parent also filmed some bottles of soy sauce with unknown labels, and some chicken feet as everyone saw on social media. But since the beginning of the year, students have not eaten that dish on the boarding menu. This is food cooked for the company's employees, but after cooking, they did not throw it away but put it there. The parent also invited me to come down and witness. I also commented at that time that the place to store food for students should be for students, the place for employees should be separate, I requested that it not be stored together like that," said Mr. Phai.

Regarding the company providing meals for the above school, Mr. Phai said it is a company located in Long Thanh My Ward, Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City.

Urgent meeting with parents, immediately stop contract with food supplier

The school said that from yesterday, October 26 until today, the school has temporarily suspended the organization of boarding meals to handle the incident. Teacher Phan Thanh Phai also said that on the afternoon of October 26, the school held an urgent meeting with teachers and parents in the school with the participation of about 50 parents.

Many children live far away, today, October 27, their parents had to buy lunch outside to bring to class, asking the teachers to feed them so they can continue studying in the afternoon.

Students of Phu Huu Primary School are temporarily not eating at boarding school since October 26.

"That same afternoon, I asked the parents whether to continue with the boarding meal provider or stop working with this provider immediately. Everyone agreed to terminate the contract with this meal provider. We stopped working with the above provider immediately. I also said that parents should suggest introducing new meal providers so that in the future, the functional units of Thu Duc, together with the school and parents, will check whether the capacity of that provider is adequate before signing a contract to continue providing boarding for students. In the future, regardless of which provider we sign with, the school will continue to strengthen inspection and supervision of meal providers to ensure safety for students," said the Principal of Phu Huu Primary School, Thu Duc City.

Phu Huu Primary School has 1,002 students, about 700 of whom eat at the boarding school. The boarding meal this school year is 28,000 VND/student. Last year the boarding meal cost was 26,000 VND/student.

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