The nutrition unit is an essential part of any hospital. Carefully monitoring the nutrition of patients, companions, and hospital staff directly affects the treatment process.
The nutrition unit’s responsibilities include:
- Diet therapy, covering visits, and nutrition counseling for outpatients
- Nutrition and dietary counseling for diabetic, heart, kidney, and cancer patients, and patients with swallowing disorders and malnutrition
- Food service management to adjust patient, companion, and staff diet
- Monitoring all food preparation stages from purchasing, preparing, storing, keeping, cooking, to distributing
- Monitoring dietary food and gavage preparation
- At Shafa Hospital, a senior nutritionist controls all food supply, storage, cooking and distribution processes under strict scientific and professional monitoring.
- A healthy diet entails balanced and diverse food intake according to one’s physical condition. Malnutrition symptoms include recurrent infectious diseases, inability to perform routine activities, palpitations, and certain diseases, such as cardiovascular disease. Erfan Hospital’s prominent nutritionists can provide counseling and an appropriate diet.
This department provides the following services:
- Investigating causes of thinness and obesity, and treatment and weight control
- Weight loss according to scientific and medical principles
- Weight loss exercises
- Physical fitness by body fat removal without recurrence
- Diets for diabetics, hypertension and hyperlipidemia patients, and more
- Diets to determine fetus sex before pregnancy
- Pregnancy nutrition, lactation, and old age
- Nutrition and diet during childhood and adolescent development
- Athletes nutrition and diet
