Sindh Food Authority to meet today after two children's food poisoning death

KARACHI: Finally dysfunctional Sindh Food Authority has summoned an emergent meeting on Monday (today) in the wake of deaths of two children in the metropolis after having poisonous food at an eatery.

As per the information received by ARY NEWS, the authority remains completely dysfunctional and has utterly failed to exercise its powers despite passing of seven months to its creation while shortage of the food inspectors in the authority, has dwindled its ability of conducting raids at the hotels and food outlets to ensure hygienic conditions in the eateries.

This is not all, the Sindh Food Authority even does not have its own laboratory for checking food samples, which are being examined at the private laboratories.

Earlier today, the postmortem report revealed that two kids who came for a dinner at a known restaurant at Zamzama died of food poisoning.

The kid’s health deteriorated soon after having dinner and they were rushed to hospital where they died shortly afterwards. One-year-old Ahmad, and five-year-old Muhammad, both sons of Ahsan were the residents of Creek Vista.

Senior doctors at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center described food poisoning as the reason of children’s death after conducting autopsy of the bodies.

Mother of the children was also hospitalized, however, her condition was later stated out of danger. Bodies of both the kids were later handed over to their parents.

Inspector General Sindh Police Kaleem Imam after taking notice of the matter sought details from SSP South about the incident. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah had also sought a comprehensive report from Commissioner Karachi into the incident.