Patients Dietary Services
We are specialized in providing such services and are already providing our services in few major Hospitals of the state
OBJECTIVES OF PATIENTS DIETARY SERVICES :
- To maintain good nutritional status of all patients.
- To educate patients about how diet plays a major role in the treatment of various diseases.
- To modify the daily diet pattern of patients to meet their requirement during various diseased condition.
- To correct deficiencies especially in patients with prolonged hospital stay like cancer patients and critical care unit patients.
Diet therapy in most instances is not a remedy in itself but is a measure which supplements or makes the medical or surgical treatment more effective.
- Major Food Service Management Activities:
The major activities that take places in the kitchen are:
- Receiving of raw materials.
- Storage of raw materials in proper storage area like the walk in cooler for perishable goods and dry storage area for non-perishable goods.
- Production of food where various meals are prepared according to prescribed diet plan.
Serving of food according to the portion prescribed in the diet plan with the help of standardize cups and serving the diet tray at the patient’s bed side.
Medical Check-up and health of Food handlers: Periodic health check- up is conducted for all the personnel working in the kitchen from time to time
Maintenance of Cleanliness in the Kitchen:
- Monitoring of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation is conducted on a daily basis.
Routine cleaning is done on a daily basis to ensure cleanliness and hygiene of all section which include the pre- preparation area, cooking area, washing area, dry storage area, vegetable storage area, blend section, juice counter, salad preparation ,food trolleys, floors and tiles, ventilators and garbage disposal.
Types of diet provided to the patients:
- Regular Normal diet
- Soft diet
- Clear Liquid diet
- Full Liquid diet
- Ryle’s tube feeds
- Diabetic diet
- Renal Diet
- High Protein diet
- Salt free diet
