Healthy food – All India Institute of Medical Sciences issues orders for including healthy food items in cafeteria, hostel mess menu

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences right here on Wednesday issued orders for inclusion of wholesome meals objects like boiled eggs, milk, sprouts, boiled ‘chana’ and salad within the menu of the cafeteria and hostel mess.

In a communication despatched to the chairman of the Cafeteria Administration Committee, AIIMS Director M Srinivas mentioned the prevailing menu of the cafeteria and hostel mess on the institute offers very restricted and standard meals like ‘samosa’, ‘kachori’ and bread ‘pakora’ that are thought-about unhealthy meals objects.

The college, resident docs, nursing officers and different employees members working at AIIMS, New Delhi are concerned in affected person care and require wholesome meals to construct up and preserve their immunity, the communication mentioned. “Chairman, Cafeteria Administration Committee is hereby requested to concern mandatory instructions to the DGM, Central Cafeteria to make out there wholesome meals like boiled egg, milk, sprouts, boiled ‘chana’, fruit salad, veg salad, recent uncut fruits and recent fruit juices together with different menu objects in breakfast and lunch which is out there on the Central Cafeteria, and in addition make preparations for microwavable ready-to-made meals objects requiring 2-3 minutes of cooking like ‘upma’, ‘poha’ and so on (charges of the identical could also be mounted accordingly),” the communication mentioned.

Wholesome meals objects must also be served within the Surgical block cafeteria, MCH block cafeteria and all different cafeterias inside seven days from the issuance of the letter, it acknowledged.

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