The Dietetics and Nutrition Department at Nepal Mediciti plays a crucial role in enhancing patient recovery and reducing hospital stay durations, which minimizes the risk of hospital-acquired infections. This approach benefits patients by lowering their medical expenses and improves hospital efficiency by reducing the Average Length of Stay (ALOS), a key quality indicator. Modern science and medicine have increasingly acknowledged the critical role of nutrition and dietetics in patient recovery. Proper nutrition facilitates faster recovery following surgical or medical treatments. Our clinical nutritionists perform accurate therapeutic nutritional analyses to address deficiencies caused by illness or trauma and prescribe customized, nutritionally balanced diets to support quick recovery. They also counsel and motivate individuals with lifestyle-related issues such as obesity, underweight, or malnutrition by providing diet plans tailored to BMI, sex, age, and height.
The department disseminates nutrition knowledge through discussions, lectures, and diet charts, ensuring quality food service with diverse, appealing options to promote physical and mental health. Our team meets patients to assess and plan diets according to food habits, allergies/intolerances, biomedical parameters, and disease conditions, providing well-balanced diets to avoid nutritional deficiencies and maintaining good interpersonal relations between patients and staff. We also sensitize kitchen personnel to nutrition, health, hygiene, and sanitation to prepare health-conducive food products. Our services include IPD Nutrition & Diet Management, where daily visits to all wards, including ICUs and CCUs, assess nutrition requirements and intake, ensuring faster recovery and reducing ICU and hospital stay days. We ensure the right density and consistency of food for ICU/CCU patients, especially those on NIL BY MOUTH orders. In OPD Nutrition & Diet Management, we offer one-on-one therapeutic diet counseling, address all diet-related queries, and provide customized diet plans and body composition analysis charts for weight management. In Onco Day Care, daily rounds provide diet counseling tailored to oncology patients' specific needs, helping them overcome nutritional deficiencies. Our clinical nutritionists are well-qualified to plan diets for various conditions, ensuring that patients receive the best possible support for their recovery and overall health.
