Food poisoning occurred in the school canteen, but the problem has been solved.

Within a short period of half a month from September 4th to18th, there were seven consecutive incidents of collective food poisoning among primary and middle school students in Shanxi, affecting about 600 students.

Poisoned students talk about "eating" discoloration

In recent days, collective food poisoning incidents among students in Shanxi have occurred frequently and in large quantities, which has frightened all sectors of society.

On September 4th, the third day of the new semester, 8/kloc-0 students in Taiping Street School in Yuanping City developed vomiting and nausea, and some of them were accompanied by abdominal pain. Since then, student food poisoning incidents have followed:

On the 5th, there were more than 290 boarding schools in Yuze Town, Tunliu County. 10, Jintang No.2 Primary School in Yuncheng City, with students 16; 1 1 day, 35 students from Mianyang Hot Spring International School in Xinzhou City; 13, Chuangshi Primary School in Yuanping City, with 73 students; 16, Yonghe No.2 Middle School, 39; On June 5438+08, there were 60 students in Shibei Township Middle School and Wade Hope Primary School in Wuxiang County.

In Xinzhou City, where three consecutive food poisoning incidents occurred, many students were talking about "eating". Xiaoyan (pseudonym), a third-grade student at Chuangshi Primary School in Yuanping City, told the reporter that although she was not poisoned at that time, she still remembered the uncomfortable appearance of her classmates and didn't want to eat. Because his home is too far away from school, he has to continue to live on campus after school starts, but he is going to bring more dry food and pickles because the food in the canteen is "unpalatable".

After witnessing the first place where these poisoning incidents occurred-the canteen of Taiping Street School in Yuanping City, the reporter found that the word "health" was completely empty talk here. The canteen is located on the east side of the campus, separated from the toilet by a "neighbor". Flies are flying everywhere, and the entrance of the canteen stinks. After the food poisoning accident, the canteen was ordered to be rebuilt. A villager in Taiping Street who was working quietly pointed to the small barrel of oil on the stove and said, "That's what they used to cook for the dolls! It's strange not to get sick! "The reporter opened the bucket, and the black turbid cooking oil came into view, with two wet worm bodies floating on it. After the iron drum is tilted, there is a layer of paste sediment at the bottom of the drum.

The reporter learned from the Shanxi Provincial Department of Education that most of the poisoning causes of students in these schools have been identified as bacillary dysentery caused by unclean or spoiled food. For example, the poisoning incident of students in Taiping Street School in Yuanping City was caused by fly-borne bacteria; The relevant departments inspected the food eaten by students in boarding school in Yuze Town, Tunliu County, and found that steamed bread and noodle soup were moldy.

Sacido's big secret

Coincidentally, all the seven schools with collective food poisoning are located in the fringe of urban and rural areas or in pure villages. Wang Deke, director of the Department of Physical Education and Health, Shanxi Provincial Education Department, pointed out that due to the adjustment of the layout of primary and secondary schools in various places, single-person schools and compound schools have gradually decreased, and many boarding primary and secondary schools in counties and townships have been hastily launched in the absence of food and other conditions. The deeper reason is that the high profits and chaotic management system in the canteen make students victims.

The length of a school, but it can't manage the canteen, is a "common disease" in many township primary and secondary schools. Yuanping Taiping Street School is a village-run school integrating primary school and junior high school. The students in the school are mainly children from neighboring villages, and the school canteen is contracted by a villager named Zhao.

Yang Mi International School in Xinzhou was originally a private school, and later it was changed to a private school, called "Development Zone Primary School". Principals of public schools are only responsible for teaching management and have no right to ask about logistics. A teacher of the school told reporters privately that in order to avoid the suspicion of "taking advantage", the principal didn't even go to the school cafeteria to eat.

Why can't the headmaster manage Sashido? Relevant persons in the local education department pointed out that "benefit distribution" makes this so.

The teacher in charge of logistics in a school in Yuanping revealed that even the school canteens with many indicators meet the requirements have a profit rate of more than 30%, while the illegal canteens with less infrastructure investment, cutting corners in cooking and buying fakes and selling fakes are even more "twice the result with half the effort", and the net profit of many grassroots school canteens is as high as 50%.

Therefore, Wang Deke pointed out that in many places, township governments or village committees often designate local school canteen contractors to monopolize the operation, creating a smooth sales channel for poor quality and poor hygiene food. No matter the quality of water, noodles, vegetables and other raw materials, the price can be saved, which also lays a health and safety hazard. Some schools even use the sign of "closed management" to prevent students from spending outside the school in order to earn as much money as possible.

This situation is particularly prominent in some private schools. More and more private schools have become the main victims of students' food poisoning, especially rural schools with inadequate supervision. Among the 7 schools with food poisoning accidents, 3 were private schools and 6 were rural schools.

The accountability system is "an armchair strategist"

Food poisoning is a matter of life, but why is it so high? According to the reporter's investigation, despite repeated strict orders from Shanxi Provincial Department of Education and letters of responsibility signed by municipal education directors, in recent years, although there are several incidents of food poisoning among students every year, no one responsible has been punished for it. "Without strict accountability, managers will have no immediate pain, and avoiding poisoning incidents will become an' armchair strategist'!" Wang Deke said angrily.

The Shanxi Provincial Department of Education has repeatedly issued regulations on school food safety, requiring provincial health and education departments to arrange at least one or two special inspections every year; County-level health and education administrative departments shall arrange at least 1 2 special inspections every semester, and managers of relevant departments shall often go deep into schools to carry out inspections; Schools should regularly conduct self-inspection of canteens. However, a leader in charge of the canteen in a school in Yuanping said: "The above inspection is always notified in advance. Which school will fail? " This kind of inspection is just a formality. Besides, there are more than ten or twenty school canteens in a county, and the leaders of the Education Bureau and the Health Bureau can't come once every few years under normal circumstances. "

In the current management of school health work, the accountability of food safety is also "loud thunder, little rain". Since 2003, referring to the working mechanism formed in the prevention and treatment of SARS, China's education administrative departments at all levels have gradually signed the "Responsibility Letter for School Health and Epidemic Prevention and Food Hygiene and Safety" with schools. The letter of responsibility confirmation of Shanxi education system stipulates that if the health and epidemic prevention and food hygiene and safety measures are not implemented, resulting in infectious diseases and food poisoning incidents in schools, if they are not reported in time or concealed, the relevant leaders will be investigated for responsibility according to law.

Shall we investigate the responsibility of "causing food poisoning incidents" or the responsibility of "not reporting in time or concealing it"? The language is vague. Only talk about "investigating the responsibility of relevant leaders according to law", but lack of specific punishment provisions for relevant responsible persons.

Ambiguous expression is a kind of appeasement to the responsible person. A person in charge of the primary education department said: "Food poisoning often occurs in schools, and hospitals report it step by step through the health system. Until the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education verified, people in our grassroots education departments did not know that such a thing happened in the jurisdiction. "

Wang Deke pointed out that this provision is vague because the "power of life and death" of managers and principals of primary and secondary schools in various places is in the hands of local governments, and it is difficult for education departments to directly investigate their responsibilities. The local government attaches more importance to test scores than school safety. The practice of "implementing documents with documents, implementing speeches with speeches, and implementing slogans with slogans" is also an important reason for the frequent popularity of food safety in some local schools. Even if there is a student collective poisoning incident, the local government will only make a report and do some work to "mend after it is too late".

Therefore, in 2004, more than 40 students in a children's school in Changzhi City were poisoned by drinking fresh milk, in Xinjiang County 103, in a village-run primary school in Fushan County this year, and in eight schools in Pinglu District of Shuozhou City, no one has been held accountable.

The successive incidents of student collective food poisoning in Shanxi have sounded the alarm not so much for campus food safety as for governments at all levels. In the face of more and more students living on campus, it is imperative to introduce specific punishment systems and measures for food poisoning incidents as soon as possible.