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he meal is needed due" .. anger among MPs after the decision to shut down the school feeding meals .. "Education parliament" summon Minister of Education Monday .. and Undersecretary of the Committee: No substitute for the meal .. and MP Ahmad Sajeeni: We will not accept the demolition of the whole system
Thursday, March 23, 2017 14:48
Thursday, March 23, 2017 14:48
The effects of a decision Dr. Tarek Shawky, Minister of Education and technical education, stop Meals school feeding Exchange, as well as meals in stores schools, at the level of all educational departments until further notice, controversial parliamentary and wide, especially that the minister has announced that replaced for cash is out of the question.
And rejected a number of members of parliament's decision to stop the meal, especially in light of UN reports indicate that displays many of the children of Egypt health of the phenomenon known as "stunting", where the UN report pointed out that 30 percent of Egyptian children suffer from "stunting", a disease caused by malnutrition health is sound.
And call for the Committee on Education and Scientific Research and Education Minister Tarek Shawky next Monday to look into the school meals crisis after repeated poisoning of children in the governorates, and know the return date diets exchange again.
Abdul Rahman Boray: No substitute for school meals
For his part, MP Abdul Rahman Boray, Undersecretary of the Education Committee and the Scientific Research Council of Representatives, Dr. Tarek Shawky and Minister of Education will attend a session of the Committee next Monday, adding that the committee will go with him several issues on top of school meals crisis.
He said a commission agent for education and scientific research, in a statement for "The Seventh Day", that the decision of the Minister of Education to suspend school meals exchange must be for a specific period not exceeding 7 days only, pointing out that those meals is of great importance to children in school, especially since we have 30% of the children are stunted and weak growth.
And the possibility of replacing the school meal for cash, he said, "Boraie," there is no room for the cancellation will not accept any alternative, but the state has to look at how to increase school meal elements of best benefit the child.
He denounced "Shawki" no ministry out a statement of the problem itself and the reasons for their appearance and who is responsible for the supply.
Undersecretary of the Health Committee: Government reform school meals system instead of searching for an alternative
While the MP Ayman Abul-Ela, Undersecretary of the Health Committee of the House of Representatives, that the school meals system needs reform for a period of not less than 3 months, suggesting asylum temporary material support, until tighten oversight and ensure better access to healthy products.
He said Undersecretary of the Health Committee House of Representatives, that the state by choosing the best companies to take over the industry, those food products, reticent to talk about indispensable, because they represent a large portion of child nutrition that they face a shortage anemia and stunting, saying that the crisis is in the suppliers and the presence of elements of the subconscious It holds the distribution, stressing the need to ensure the same state food safety instead of searching for an alternative for them.
"Sajeeni": reject the entire demolition of the system .. The system can work Coupons
Ahmed Sajeeni, chairman of the management committee of local House of Representatives, said that the study of the current system has become a matter of urgency and necessary, refusing to talk about the abolition of school meals, especially since the poisoning is an emergency, we have not heard about this form of systematic before, saying: "I do not mean to be a display will be resolved eradicated. "
The head of the local administration, it is not with the entire demolition of the system, but you must research the bugs and evaluate the system and find alternatives to both central subtracting or decentralization, especially since each province has its own specificity choose the standards, but based on a centralized specification, suggesting labor coupon system , and he added: "but he also needs to study."
Magda Nasr: Call the three parties involved in the government to reform the school meals system
For its part, the MP Magda Nasr, a member of the Committee on Education and Scientific Research House of Representatives, said that the decision to stop school meals appropriately, especially with the presence of neglect and corruption in the system, pointing out that the state by tracing the causes of poisoning, and to find alternatives for those meals after becoming poor and non undesirable, and therefore there is waste in money they cost the state more than one billion pounds.
She said a member of the Committee on Education and Scientific Research, it has to be fully reform the system, and the committee will summon all the parties concerned, namely the Ministry of Education and Health and the Ministry of Local Development through the governors, to discuss how to improve the quality of school meals.
Magda did not mind Nasr material support Exchange instead of school meal, saying: "But there must be data showing whether or not the needs of the base, in addition to the requirement to ensure dispensing food without the family disbursement in other needs."
She stressed that the current imbalance of the system, does not fit the current image, and although the coated products but poor, entails strict supervision to ensure safety.
It is noteworthy that school meals comes on the recommendation of the United Nations Organization within the World Food Program, and attention to the child.
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