Because of Amma Canteen at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, things have started changing a lot. Hygiene conditions on the hospital’s premises are drastically improving. Unlike earlier, fewer people consume food inside the hospital wards.
Apart from patients’ attendants and visitors, hospital workers too have been found making a beeline to the canteen that was opened on November 20.A hospital worker said the canteen does not have parcel service and discourages people from bringing containers to take away food. A member of the canteen staff said several hospital workers and security guards consume food at the canteen. He said on an average, at least 600 to 700 persons come to the canteen every day. For instance, on November 28, the canteen sold 6,411 idlis, 1,053 plates of pongal for breakfast, 938 plates of sambar rice, 532 plates of curd rice and 308 plates of lemon rice for lunch.