Nutrition is essential for good health and growth. Better nutrition is linked to better newborn, child, and mother health, a stronger immune system, a safer pregnancy and birth, a lower risk of lifestyle diseases, and longer life. In the treatment of a number of health disorders, proper nutrition is also an important aspect of therapeutic and preventive health care management. A well-balanced diet satisfies all of a person's nutritional needs, boosting immunity and lowering the risk of disease.

The AHRI's Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics section is responsible for enhancing patients' nutrition, health, and well-being in order to improve their clinical management. Patients receive evidence-based medical nutrition therapy from a team of highly skilled dieticians.

OUR SERVICES

The department provides comprehensive and customized high quality nutrition care services to all age groups and offers its services to both outpatients and inpatients.

OPD SERVICES

● Normal and therapeutic dietary approach to prevent diseases and manage health. Our Dieticians carryout a complete nutritional assessment and screening using a body composition analyzer and to assist with a variety of nutrition related diseases and concerns. We offer the following services:
● Expert advice on lifestyle modifications
● Obesity management - weight loss clinic
● OPD-Executive checkup
● Diabetes nutrition education including gestational diabetes
● Diet counseling for other lifestyle diseases such as Heart diseases, renal diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, cancer, dyslipidemia etc.
● Eating disorder therapy,
● Dietary management for pregnancy, lactation, food allergy, PCOD, gluten sensitivity, metabolic disorders etc.

IP SERVICES

● Screening and assessment of patient's nutritional status
● Nutrition intervention for malnutrition identified patients
● Well established pediatric nutrition support-Offers pediatric assessment, growth monitoring
● Treat childhood obesity, global development delay and nutrition education for the parent, work with a smile train to provide nutrition support for the children with cleft lip and cleft palate.
● Supplementary nutrition support/enteral nutrition.
● Special Nutrition care plan and support for critically ill patients who are mechanically ventilated and to provide specific enteral feeds according to the clinical condition
● Post surgical dict.
● Nutrition support for organ transplant patients
● Diet counseling and therapeutic dietary modifications according to patient's requirement diseased conditions.
● Detailed diet instructions in customized diet charts

OTHER SERVICES

● Surveillance and quality control program of food processing and services in the hospital kitchen
● Diet kitchen offers complimentary feeds for the babies if needed.
● Internship facility for aspiring nutritionists
● Nutrition awareness classes and camps for patients and community

Let food be thy medicine
Hippocrates