Mayor Asks For Chiki Ngebul Free Bandung, Circular Of Prohibitions Immediately Following

Mayor of Bandung, West Java, Yana Mulyana. (HOTO BETWEEN/HO-Humas Bandung City Government)

West Java - Bandung Mayor Yana Mulyana asked Bandung to be free from ngbul or hawkers using liquid nitrogen. He warned that the snacks had invited many cases of poisoning

"Because of the risk, nitrogen can be dangerous if it is swallowed. Even a glass can break if it is exposed to frozen nitrogen, let alone a stomach," he said in Bandung, West Java (West Java), Monday, January 16, was confiscated by Antara.

According to him, cases of poisoning due to popular chiki are increasingly widespread. He also ensured that the Bandung City Health Office (Dinkes) had made a circular prohibiting the product. Even so, he ensured that no children or adults were confirmed to have been poisoned due to the increasing chiki in the city of Bandung. In order to streamline the ban, he admitted that he had asked the Bandung City Education Office (Disdik) to make a circular so that parents monitored children's snacks at school. "In addition to monitoring children's snacks at school, we also urge traders around schools not to sell chiki ngebul," said Yana Mulyana.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Bandung City Health Office, Anhar Hadian, confirmed that there were no cases of developing chiki poisoning in the city of Bandung. However, he said, hospitals in Bandung have the potential to receive referrals for patients in cases of chiki ngbul cases from other regions. He admitted that he was still waiting for technical instructions from the Ministry of Health regarding licensing for consumption, even though a circular regarding the prohibition on consuming these products had been issued. "So far, we have found no reports of patients from the city of Bandung due to eating chiki and nggebul. We make sure this is a report from all hospitals," said Anhar.