MP Shanakiyan Rasamankkam says that the food provided to Covid patients treated at the Periya Kallar Hospital in Batticaloa is of poor quality. The hospital houses 150 patients.
The MP has visited the hospital on Sunday to look into the matter and in a video posted on Twitter, patients are seen complaining to the MP regarding the food offered to them.
As per the parliamentarian, the contractor who provides meals to the hospital is paid Rs. 750 per person per day. However, the MP alleges that the quality of food offered all three times together does not value more than Rs. 200-300.
MP Shanakiyan also says that hospital staff had written to the authorities to change the contractor on more than 20 occasions and this issue has been going on for more than 5 months now. (NewsWire)