{"id":845,"date":"2014-01-14T11:28:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T10:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=845"},"modified":"2014-01-14T11:28:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T10:28:22","slug":"some-unhealthy-and-unsafe-restaurants-still-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/some-unhealthy-and-unsafe-restaurants-still-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Some unhealthy and unsafe restaurants still work"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City Council authority has decided to close dirty restaurants which don\u2019t respond to hygienic norms in Bujumbura. However, some of the restaurants are still working despite the decision.<\/strong>-Yves Didier Irakoze<\/em><\/p>\n

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One of the unhealthy restaurants.\u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

Those small restaurants are often built with wood, strips of canes or stalks, and covered with plastics and leaves. The floor is unsafe and everywhere flies are roaming around. Even the food is prepared in non hygienic conditions and cooked inside the so-called houses which are actually less comfortable than grass huts. These can catch fire very easily as the cooking is done inside or outside them. Both the owners and customers seem not to see the danger that can occur. They don\u2019t even think that they are easy targets of diseases caused by the lack of good hygienic conditions. The restaurants are scattered everywhere in the capital city like Bwiza, Kamenge, Buyenzi, Kinindo, Kinama, Nyakabiga, Jabe, Kibenga, Kanyosha, etc. N. C. one customer found in a dirty restaurant behind Kinindo market, states that he comes to feed himself in such an unhealthy place because other restaurants are very expensive. \u201cWith BIF500, I can get enough food to eat whereas in other restaurants if I don\u2019t have more than BIF2000 I can\u2019t get anything,\u201d says N.C. J. M. a cyclist met at Buyenzi restaurant, indicates that he doesn\u2019t care about the hygienic state of where he takes food, but what is important for him is to be fed up. \u201cI don\u2019t have much money to build a solid house. I only buy cheap materials to construct a shelter where I can run my business for my family\u2019s survival,\u201d declares C.M., owning a dirty restaurant at Buyenzi. Concerning his opinion about unsafe and untidy restaurants, C.M. points out that he always cleans the place and there isn\u2019t any customer who has already complained to him that he has suffered from any kind of disease due to dirtiness.<\/p>\n

What are people in charge of hygiene in Bujumbura doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Prosper Muyuku, in Charge of Hygiene in the Ministry of Public Health and Fight against AIDS, the exploitation license was delivered by the Ministry in Charge of Trade, the City Council or the Administrator some years ago but now it is granted by many people in the administration; the reason why there is an increasing number of those restaurants. \u201cThe City Council has introduced the system where the Neighborhood Chief can now provide the license. Today, the technician in charge of Hygiene has lost the power he had in former times in terms of collaboration with the government,\u201d regrets Muyuku. Consequently, the Ministry of Public Health and Fight against AIDS hasn\u2019t anymore a lot of control over either the owners or the activities of those shameful restaurants.
\nCandide Kazatsa, in Charge of Communication in the City Council mentions that the activity of inspecting those restaurants is still going on. \u201cWe continue to close them and the City Council respects its mission,\u201d concludes Kazatsa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The City Council authority has decided to close dirty restaurants which don\u2019t respond to hygienic norms in Bujumbura. However, some of the restaurants are still working despite the decision.-Yves Didier Irakoze Those small restaurants are often built with wood, strips of canes or stalks, and covered with plastics and leaves. The floor is unsafe and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[49,533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}