The medical screening lab of the Punjab Food Authority has declared 471 food handlers/workers sick after the results of their medical report were positive, says a monthly report of January 2019 released by the Authority on Monday. PFA Director General Muhammad Usman said that the PFA took the blood samples of 5,882 people out of which 5,411 workers were found healthy and remaining failed in the medical screening test. The report revealed that 154 people were suffering from Typhoid, 26 people from Tuberculosis (TB), 130 people from Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and 161 people were suffering from Hepatitis C virus (HBV).
The authority conducted 2,829 medical tests of food workers in Lahore Screening Lab, 1,250 tests in Multan, 705 tests in Gujranwala and 1,098 tests in Rawalpindi during January 2019.