Damascus-Sana countryside
With simple capabilities and a small number of manpower, the central kitchen created by the Rif Dimashq Governorate during 2017 in Aqraba town accomplishes the equivalent of 7,000 meals distributed daily to quarantine centers currently and needy families in the region under the supervision and follow-up of the Health Directorate in the countryside.
Multiple types of foods vary between bulgur, rice, potatoes, peas, chicken and other types. The kitchen operators are keen to cook them in a delicious way to be served to the centers that are determined daily by the province.
With love and passion, Chef Mohamed Khair Hussein continues his work and supervision of the types of foods that are prepared in the kitchen, indicating to the delegate of Sana who visited the kitchen and looked at the work mechanism and the bodies that supply it with food, that despite its small area and the number of its workers that do not exceed five, this kitchen has managed over the years to extend many sides With different types of foods in addition to the displaced who have been present during the past periods in the Aqraba area.
According to Hussein, various types of ration materials are available in the kitchen, such as fat, oil, rice, bulgur, lentils, chickpeas, spices and other requirements needed, confirming that the province is constantly following the work of the kitchen and supplies it with all the necessary materials to prepare the food that is cooked distinctively to be provided to residents in quarantine centers at the present time due to the skill Owned by kitchen workers.
Ghassan Al-Mustafa supervises the work of the kitchen and is keen to provide everything he needs by communicating with the relief office in the governorate, stressing that the kitchen is the first of its kind in the governorate and the latest in 2017 under difficult conditions where he provided food to families displaced from their homes because of terrorism and was able to support these families Over the years, his work developed later on, until he served food to supervisors of fairs and festivals, and currently he works to provide daily meals for residents of quarantine centers in more than one area such as Al-Duwair and Al-Hurgla.
The kitchen depends on catering supplies provided entirely by the governorate, according to the employee at the relief office in the governorate, Ahmed Al-Mustafa, who confirmed that the food is transported after being prepared with equipped cars and provided by the Rural Health Administration of Damascus, explaining that the kitchen despite its smallness, but it does a tremendous and proven worthiness during the years The past, therefore, did not spare the governorate by supporting all its requirements of gas and materials, pointing out that the distribution of food is based on a prior program that clarifies the numbers of residents in the centers.
The Damascus Countryside Health Directorate continues on a daily basis the work of the kitchen, which has taken various precautionary measures to tackle the Corona virus and preserve the workers and people who provide them with food. This is what Uriah Suleiman referred to from the Damascus Rural Health Directorate during a meeting with the SANA delegate, stressing that the kitchen is subject to direct health control and its employees They follow all health precautions.
Suleiman said that the kitchen meets the health requirements, hygiene and raw materials involved in cooking such as rice, lentils, bulgur, oils, salmon and tomato jam, all of which are well preserved within a warehouse In addition to that the team in the kitchen is subject to a medical examination by the health center near the kitchen periodically to preserve their health and Food hygiene.
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