Damascus bakeries ... a marked decrease in overcrowding

Damascus-Sana

There has been a noticeable decline in overcrowding in front of Damascus bakeries in recent days, as a result of the measures taken by the Ministry of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection to solve this problem.

Last week, mobile cars were sent to sell bread to areas where there are bakeries such as “Ibn Al-Ameed, Sheikh Saad and Al Zahra” because they suffered from overcrowding more than others, in addition to activating 14 stalls selling bread in succession in areas where there are no ovens and increasing the number of accredited Their number reached 280 accredited people in the city of Damascus, with some Syrian Trade halls receiving bread bundles and selling them to citizens in parallel with the work of bakeries at full production capacity and providing the requirements for loaf production.All of this was the reason for the decline in congestion, according to Nael Samander, director of the Syrian Corporation for Bakeries in Damascus.

Samander assured in his statement to the representative of SANA that there is no bakery in Damascus that is suspended and that work is underway according to the complete plan for each of them, and the focus of work is currently to improve the quality and quality of bread, indicating that there are always attempts to prevent overcrowding because this puts pressure on the work of the bakeries, their production and the quality of the loaf Preparing to activate new stalls selling bread within two days in Al Mazraa and Mezzeh areas.

SANA's camera monitored the situation in front of a number of Damascus bakeries, as Samer Al-Khatib and Jihad Matar confirmed in front of the Al-Shagour automated bakery that the situation is now better, as previously waiting to take bread using the electronic card lasts for more than an hour and a half, but now it takes ten minutes.

In front of the Akram bakery 3 and 4 in Mezzeh, Saeed Gargoura and Mrs. Umm Ahmad mentioned that the situation in front of the bakery has become completely different from the previous weeks, saying, “Before we used to stay two to three hours to be able to get bread and the number of people in front of the oven reached more than 100 people. Now, within a quarter of an hour, we take bread, the number is very few, and the bread is of good quality and better than before.

From behind the sales niche in the Akram bakery 4, the employee Ali Shamsin noted the measures taken by the ministry recently, as it had achieved the required goal of reducing congestion, especially the procedure related to selling via the electronic card to regulate the role and the need of each family and to prevent trafficking in bread under the penalty of responsibility and accountability for violators.

It should be mentioned that according to Article 27 of Consumer Protection Law No. 14 of 2015 and its amendments, anyone who trades in subsidized materials will be fined one million Syrian pounds and imprisonment for a year.

Ali Ajeeb