SFA, JDC to collaborate on blood tests of food handlers

5 months ago 40

The Director General Sindh Food Authority (SFA) Agha Fakhar Hussain visited the Head Office of JDC Foundation Pakistan, a welfare and non-governmental organisation operating all over the country, especially in Karachi.

General Secretary of the Foundation Zafar Abbas briefed the DG SFA in detail on the workings of the organisation and showed him the newly constructed mortuary in which almost 1000 dead bodies can be kept at a time, until burial, in a very scientific and very respectable way. Agha Fakhar Hussain also visited the most advanced laboratory of JDC Foundation where thousands of blood tests can be done in a day with the highest accuracy level.

The DG SFA informed that there were approximately one million food handlers, working in the city and they need their blood tests to be done annually for detailed working is under with KMC is underway as the number of food handlers is too high and needs a collaboration of concerned groups and agencies to comply this task on no profit basis.