The company which provided fried food found to have glass shards, causing seven school children to be hospitalised, has been suspended.
Deputy Education Minister Datuk P.Kamalanathan said the officers in charge had been instructed to suspend the company after receiving news on the tainted food.
The ministry was waiting for a full report from the school and the findings of the hospital before deciding on sterner action against the company, he said on his blog today.
READ: PM shares anger of parents whose children hospitalised after eating glass shards
An English daily reported on Sunday that seven pupils of Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil Ladang Nigel Gardner, Hulu Selangor, were admitted to Sungai Buloh Hospital last Friday (Feb 26) after eating glass shards in the noodles provided inder the Supplementary Food Programme.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak shared the anger of parents whose children were hospitalised and called for a thorough investigation to identify problems in the food-handling procedure so that such an incident would not recur.
Kamalanathan said: "The ministry also made sure that a qualified supplier of food be put in place so as to not disrupt the ongoing extra food programme."
He has instructed the school authorities and teachers in charge of the programme to check on the food and its quality before allowing the pupils to eat it.
"I visited the children yesterday and was very relieved when the doctors informed me that there was not any permanent health issue for any of them," the Hulu Selangor member of Parliament said.
He gave instruction for all 54 pupils who ate the food to be x-rayed as a precautionary measure to ensure they were "really free from any health affliction due to the food poisoning".
Bernama
Wed Mar 02 2016
Kamalanathan said the officers in charge had been instructed to suspend the company after receiving news on the tainted food.
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