Beef curtailed for indoor patients in state hospitals

by S.M. Wijayaratne, Kurunegala Cor.

The Ministry of Health has taken steps to curtail the quantity of beef provided to indoor patients in government hospitals countrywide.

The ministry will introduce alternative food items of high protein value instead of beef.

This is now being carried out in State hospitals.

The Ministry of Health had included beef in its menu to provide sufficient nutrition for indoor patients in government hospitals countrywide.

However, steps are being taken to minimise the consumption of beef by discouraging people to eat beef.

The ministry has already issued instructions to all higher authorities of state hospitals said former Provincial Director of Health services, Kurunegala Dr. A.M. Jayaweera.