The SGH Dietetics department service is available for all inpatients and outpatients during their treatment through personalized attention to our patients and families with regards to their diet and well-being in a more professional way.

Services

• To promote the optimal nutritional status of patients through medical nutrition therapy.
• To promoting health care education through counseling and seminars.
• To preparing and serve attractive and satisfying meals under high standards.

Our Services & Specialties support for patients :

• Nutrition assessment/healthy eating.
• Nutrition support/enteral feeding.
• Diabetes and Hypertension
• Diets for renal disease
• Suitable diets for various gastrointestinal disorders e.g. celiac diseases, IBD, IBS, constipation
• Weight and Lipid management
• Food allergy/intolerance
• Metabolic diseases which require dietary manipulation.
• Diets for neurological diseases e.g. stroke
• Diet and arthritis
• Diet and Cancer
• Pregnancy, Lactating mothers
• Pediatric counseling for infants, school going toddlers, adolescents
• Disorders of liver, pancreas, and gallbladder
• Eating disorders
• Pre/post-operation diet as per doctor’s advice
• Diets for specific patient groups (elderly, children, pregnant women)
• Diet for nutritional deficiencies for vitamins and minerals e.g. anemia, hypocalcemia, hyperuricemia etc.
• Any others which require nutritional counseling.

Diet Counseling – Inpatients

• Daily visit by dietician
• Nutritional assessment of all patient at the time of admission and daily assessment thereafter.
• Diet planning of meals according to therapeutic needs.
• Patient and family education.

Diet Counseling – Outpatients

• Walk in or referrals
• Advice on dietary instructions to be followed
• Physician – Dietician – Patient team approach
• Diet counseling is done to the patients according to their physical condition or on the advice of the treating consultant.
• Printed diet chart and instructions to the patients after explaining about their diets.