Department of Dietetics
- The Department of Dietetics at AIIMS was established in the year 1959.
- Diet is an important & integral part of curative & prevention health care management.
- Dietary services at AIIMS is the first public sector hospital to obtain Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) license.
- Dietary services are digitalized through the E-Hospital software.
- Dietary Services in AIIMS Hospital involves three distinct categories :
- Medical Nutrition Therapy
- Food Service Management
- Teaching, Training & Research
Vision
- To provide exemplary medical nutrition therapy and hospital food services for patients.
- To provide healthy, hygienic, therapeutic diet to help patients to recover fast.
Role of Dietary Services
- To maintain good nutritional status of all patients.
- To educate patients about how diet plays a major role in the treatment of various diseases.
- To modify the daily diet pattern of patients to meet their requirement during various diseased condition.
- To correct deficiencies especially in patients with prolonged hospital stay like cancer patients and critical care unit patients.
- Diet therapy in most instances is not a remedy in itself but is a measure which supplements or makes the medical or surgical treatment more effective.
- To take care of dietary needs of Indoor General ward & Private ward patients every day. There are various kinds of diet being sent to the patients based on Nutritional screening and Nutritional assessment done by the Dieticians.
DR.PARMEET KAUR
CHIEF DIETICIAN
AIIMS
