Nutrition and Dietetics

The Department provides comprehensive dietary counseling services to both in-patients and out-patients. It works closely with doctors and nurses to ensure holistic and effective care.

Services:

• Receives referrals from physicians across all specialties
• Attends to patients of all ages and genders
• Provides evidence-based nutritional knowledge and dietetic skills

Core Objective: To promote health and prevent disease through the application of evidence-based nutritional knowledge and dietetic skills, aimed at improving overall well-being.

The Department comprises the following units:

Nutrition Unit:

• Offers dietary counseling
• Follow-up sessions
• Health talks
• Special focus during antenatal clinic days
• Provides nutritional advice to in-patients throughout the hospital

Dietetics Unit:

• Manages patients with specific dietary needs including:

- Diabetes

- Hypertension

- Pregnancy

- Lactation

- Malnutrition

• Operates a dietetic kitchen that prepares therapeutic meals (such as pap formulations)
• Conducts food demonstrations for patients and their caregivers

Catering Unit:

• Provides daily meal services to in-patients
• Extends meal services to out-patients who are referred to the department for nutritional care, as required