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metronews.ca WEEKEND, DECEMBER 9-11, 2011
City hospital cited for food-safety violations
Mock. Funeral Protesters carry a young woman down Cartier Street Thursday after she pretended to be shot and killed by Syrian forces during a peaceful demonstration.
Inspectors’ findings include food-storage errors, no soap at the hand-washing station and failure to ensure food was protected from potential contamination JESSICA SMITH
@METRONEWS.CA
Public Heath found seven “critical” food-safety deficiencies at the Ottawa General Hospital this year, three of them in the last week. On both Monday and Wednesday this week, inspectors found the hospital failed to “separate raw foods from ready-to-eat foods during storage and handling.” The hospital also earned a critical deficiency for not having paper towels in a dispenser at a hand basin in the food-preparation area on Monday this week
and on Aug. 19 of this year. On April 15, the citation was for having no soap in the dispenser at the washing station. Frances Furmankiewicz, director of nutrition for the hospital, said the latest problems were due to “employee error.” Though all the employees are trained and certified to handle food, they were given more training as a result of the inspections. “We have actually rectified all of those incidents now,” she said. Brenda MacLean, a program manager with Public Health, said all critical deficiencies have the potential to make food unsafe.
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“That’s the whole point of inspections — making sure that all the measures are in place to make sure that nobody does get sick,” she said. Public Health will re-inspect the hospital today, she added. A number of people at the hospital Thursday said they were concerned when they learned about the poor inspection results and said they would no longer eat there, including Cindy Gilman, who was at the hospital to pick up her daughter. “I thought the hospital would have been great at following regulations — it’s a hospital,” she said.
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Occupiers show Syrian solidarity Members of the Occupy Ottawa movement joined protesters outside the Syrian embassy on Cartier Street Thursday in solidarity with those who are demonstrating in Syria. Police officers escorted the group of about 20 people through downtown.
The new Better bus routes coming $5.5M hours OC Transpo will announce Mercier said the hours will cost $5.5 million and come after the city cut about $20 million from the system in September as part of the route optimization plan.
Monday which routes will receive the extra 66,000 hours of bus service the city is paying for as part of the 2012 budget. General manager Alain
go to add more buses to some routes and some trips will be extended so more buses run the full route. They will take effect in the new year. JESSICA SMITH
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