Georgetown : The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation advised that the preparation of patients’ meals is in accordance with the prescribed diet advised by the physicians and a competent dietician has been employed with the mandate to prepare not just healthy meals but in portions that would contribute to their overall improvement.
This issue of meals was brought to the attention of the management through complaints received on the hospital’s Clients Relations Office and on CN Sharma’s Programme – Voice of the People.
The hospital’s meals are prepared in accordance with the ‘prescribed diet’ by the physician, particularly for those diabetic patients who would have accounted for 20.7% of the medical patients warded in the hospital in 2011, the hospital’s release stated.
A holistic healthcare approach is given to patients and this caters for clinic care, physiotherapy, social therapy and a healthy diet. The diet does not include international cuisines or home cooked meals that are deemed to have lot of salt, fats and oil, the hospital said.
The GPHC said that persons tend to be taken into a hospital to recover from an illness not to develop another, thus, it is mandatory that it does not provide its patients with such substances that would prevent the patient from recovering.
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