Moves to curtail violations in bird market & save lives

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KUWAIT CITY, Aug 16: In response to the report titled “Bird Market… a time bomb” published earlier this week, government agencies mobilized to ‘dismantle’ and remove violations and correct the conditions in the market in order to preserve the lives of its clients and workers, reports Al-Rai daily.

Deputy Director General of the Livestock Sector at the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) Mohsen Al-Mutairi said the Deputy Director General of the Administrative and Financial Affairs Sector in the authority was addressed to include the bird and feed market within the organizational structure of the authority’s employees by creating a new section for him to follow up the authority’s bird and feed markets and projects. He indicated that his sector also requested for the organizational structure of the proposed section (Birds and Feed Markets Section) to be within the control of veterinary services – Animal Health Department of the sector.

Al-Mutairi said, “The authority, in the matter of urgency, sent its personnel to clean the bird market and its surroundings in order to protect public health. The director general of Kuwait Municipality was addressed to provide manpower to continue cleaning the bird and feed market. There was a considerable quantity of waste and trash that blocked all outlets of water drainage pipes. Also, violations of the building law and the accumulation of random goods in the corridors were noticed, which could serve as a spark to set fires, like the way it happened in the tent market.

Complement
To complement the efforts made to remove violations from the bird and feed market, we also addressed the undersecretary of the Ministry of Public Works and asked to provide a car every week to drain the accumulated amount of water. This helps in draining the sewage and removing many sediments that affect the general safety of the market and its patrons. It also ensures the safety of the existing animals on the site. The building of the bird market, which was received by PAAAFR from the Kuwait Municipality, has a defect in the infrastructure .

Furthermore, official sources from Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) said the prevention sector in KFSD and its inspectors play a major role in following up illegal and unlicensed shops and markets, and demanded the authorities responsible for them to remove them or amend their legal status and issue the necessary licenses for them”. They indicated that the current situation is much better than the previous years, adding, “There is cooperation from everyone to implement the fire safety protocols”. The sources went on to say, “There is a plan programmed in KFSD to correct the situation in places, open markets and slums, as fire outbreaks in them are very costly and may cause great loss of life. The Capital’s protection inspectors will take a tour of the bird and feed market to ensure there are fire extinguishers, and the n

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