The management of the Georgetown Hospital is confident that the meals served to its patients are nutritious and of a high quality.
It was responding to complaints lodged at its clients services office and in the media.
In a press release, the hospital said it has employed a qualified and competent dietician who is mandated to prepare meals for patients in portions that will contribute to their overall improvement. Over the past year in particular “the quality of meals prepared for patients has improved tremendously and anyone who refutes this statement is not being genuine or has not recently consumed it,” it added.
According to the GPHC, it is in the business of providing holistic healthcare to its patients inclusive of clinical care, physiotherapy, social therapy and a healthy diet; as such it does not prepare international cuisines or home-cooked meals which often contain preservatives, a lot of salt, saturated fats and oils which impede the speedy recovery of the patient. Further, it contends that those patients who have grouses with the meals are predominantly those who are ‘bent in their ways’ and are accustomed to those home-cooked meals and fast foods.
The hospital’s meals are prepared in accordance with the diet prescribed by the physician, particularly for diabetic patients who would have accounted for 20.7% of the medical patients warded in 2011.
The GPHC seeks to improve and restore the overall health and well-being of all its patients and has hosted health talks and mini-fairs at its medical clinic and other venues in an attempt to teach persons to change their lifestyles in order to boost their longevity.
