UP: Food safety drive conducted across state with special focus on patients' meals

Lucknow, Oct 1 (UNI) As part of efforts to strengthen public health arrangements in Uttar Pradesh, the food safety and drug administration department conducted a statewide special campaign ahead of Gandhi Jayanti to ensure the food safety of meals being provided to patients in government hospitals and medical colleges. Putting into practice Mahatma Gandhi's values of cleanliness, service and public health, departmental teams carried out special inspections of the kitchens and canteens attached to government hospitals and government medical colleges in all 75 districts of the state. Officials here on Thursday said under the campaign, the arrangements at kitchens and…