The Punjab Food Authority conducted 47,671 medical screening tests of food handlers/workers during the year 2018 out of which 4,017 people were found ill, disclosed the annual report of PFA Medical Screening Lab. PFA Director General Muhammad Usman said that the purpose of medical screening was to ensure the provision of safe and healthy food at ground level from safe hands. In this connection, the PFA took the blood samples of more than 47,000 people out of whom 343,654 workers were found cleared and remaining failed the medical screening test.

Out of the 4,017 screened people, 1689 people were suffering from Typhoid, 539 people from Tuberculosis (TB), 776 people from Hepatitis B virus (HCV) and 1,022 people were suffering from Hepatitis B virus (HBV). The PFA also referred some cases of human immunodeficiency virus to concerned departments for further procedure.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019