Drill on investigating and handling food poisoning in schools

For schools, health care and ensuring food safety in the canteen for boarding students is always one of the top priorities.

During the drill, the hypothetical situation was that a school had food poisoning with many people suffering.

The hypothetical situation is that a school has food poisoning with many people getting sick.

Accordingly, immediately after the incident, the mobile teams investigating and handling food poisoning quickly coordinated to organize first aid and transport the patient. At the same time, they took samples of the patient's specimens, investigated the patient's food poisoning situation; investigated the causative food, the causative meal, and the people who ate with them; took food samples; and handled environmental sanitation.

The drill aims to model the organization, direction and implementation of investigation activities and effective handling of food poisoning cases involving many people in schools.

Medical staff and students practice in a hypothetical situation.

The drill helps units and schools improve their sense of responsibility in investigating and handling food poisoning cases with many people in accordance with regulations. Thereby, schools are proactive in ensuring food safety when organizing collective kitchens and have quick, appropriate and effective handling plans when food poisoning cases occur, together towards the goal of "Let's join hands to prevent food poisoning".

With 131 public and non-public educational institutions, more than 50,000 students, and over 40,000 meals per day, the work of ensuring food safety in educational institutions is always of interest and focus to the People's Committee of Ba Dinh District. The district regularly directs relevant functional units to review and control food sources brought into schools.

In mid-August 2024, the Ba Dinh District Interdisciplinary Inspection Team conducted an inspection of food safety and hygiene in schools. Through the actual inspection at Hoa Mi Kindergarten (Thanh Cong Ward), the Interdisciplinary Team concluded that the school had complied well with food safety regulations and conditions, such as: the kitchen area was invested in a spacious and synchronous manner; daily food samples were fully stored; 100% of food ingredients were traceable via QR codes, the food supplier had fully proven the origin and invoices, documents; information boards on food portions, meal menus, unit prices, etc. were publicly posted.

On the eve of the new school year, the People's Committee of Ba Dinh district continues to direct relevant units to actively implement food safety work at educational institutions in the area, especially inter-sectoral coordination between the health sector and the education and training sector.

Source: https://kinhtedothi.vn/dien-tap-dieu-tra-xu-ly-ngo-doc-thuc-pham-trong-truong-hoc.html