Role of Dietetics & Nutrition

The department offers full dietary assessment and guidance on how best to meet needs of individual patients. From providing nutritional supplementation to complete nutritional support to parenteral nutrition, the D&N department provides the best support for patients suffering with conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, renal failure, liver disease, cancer etc.

Our Process Sheet:

We bring innovation to work when it comes to identifying and helping patients during their stay at the hospital. Some of the steps we take to care for patients vulnerable to undernourishment are:

• Prescribing and providing nutritional supplements in tasty drinks
• Dietitians check patients during the time of serving or eating a meal to ask if any help is required and to assist in feeding, if necessary  
• A special record chart is used to keep track of meals and supplements provided to the patient. The amount of meal taken is clearly mentioned (all, half or nothing), and if it is lesser than directed by the dietitian, then it is immediately taken to their notice
• We encourage cooks visiting the wards on a random basis, talking to the patients and understanding their needs better, and of course, serving better
• If the patient has not found anything to his liking in the current menu, he/she can opt for the lighter menu choices or request for food that they like, which has to be approved by the dietitian