Syria’s Response Coordinators Team confirmed that more than 150 people, mostly children and women, suffered from food poisoning cases in less than 48 hours in six IDP camps in northern Syria.
The relief team called on the humanitarian organizations to convert these meals into dry materials provided to the displaced to be disposed of and to ensure their validity for the longest possible period.
The "response coordinators" stressed to ensure the identity of the organizations operating inside any camp and the capacity of these organizations and their possession of the logistical capabilities and the necessary expertise in their field of work, and not to distribute any ready-made or cooked food before being examined by an approved health authority.
The team also demanded to ensure that there are health licenses for restaurants and kitchens from which foodstuffs were prepared by organizations before agreeing with them, to increase oversight over the work of those kitchens, and to reduce the length of time for preserving packaged foods as much as possible to ensure that their validity is preserved.
Northwestern Syria is home to 3.5 million refugees but is controlled by the Turkish-backed opposition factions and by Islamist HTS fighters.
The Syrian conflict - which led to the loss of at least 500,000 lives and displaced more than 13,2 million people - began in 2011 after the Assad regime brutally cracked down on peaceful pro-democracy protests.
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