Dietetics and Nutrition Unit
Head and Consultant Dietician- Kabita Maharjan
Asst. Dietician- Pratikshya Gautam
Clinical Nutrition
Clinical nutrition is the management of human nutrition and medicine. Dietician is the key person who works on clinical nutrition. The well managed food is a part of clinical nutrition. The admitted patient gets planned food under the supervision of dieticians.
Importance of Oncology Nutrition
The adequate and balanced nutrition is important to maintain patient’s weight, prevent muscles wasting, and strengthen immune system as well as improving quality of life who are undergoing and or completed oncology treatment. The tailored menus were developed considering disease condition, individual food habit & acceptance as likes & dislikes, culture and religion.
Hospital cafeteria
Food service system assures that food will be served in an attractive manner, as effectively as possible, at both ends food safety and appetizing manner. The staffs are in-serviced to serve the “right diet” with the correct portions as mentioned in diet order slip. The food quality and kitchen hygiene are monitored by Dietetics and Nutrition Unit and Infection Prevention Control unit.
Special diet formulated for patients
- Clear liquid diet
- Surgery liquid diet
- Liquid diet and
- Very-very soft diet
- Soft diet
- Bland diet
- Normal diet/General diet
- High protein
- Low protein/Renal diet
- Uremic diet
- High sodium
- Low sodium
- Diabetic diet
- Uremic diet
- Hepatic diet
- Albumin rich diet
- Low fat diet
- Fat free diet
- Coumadin diet
- Neutropenic diet
- Stoma bag diet
- Cardio diet
- High potassium diet
- Low potassium diet
Beside this special diet has been formulated on patients and visitor request as: Keto diet
Nutrition Support Team
Nutrition support team is a multidisciplinary team consulted to manage patient with complex nutritional needs (oral, enteral and parenteral feeding) assuring that the patients receive optimal nutrition support. It plays a vital role to prevent diet related condition such as malnutrition, drug food interaction, by choosing appropriate nutritional intervention.
(Head and Consultant Dietician- Kabita Maharjan)
