Nutrition & Dietetics Department

  • Nutrition is one of the basic components of life.
  • It is an essential part of health care.
  • Nutrition is an integral part of medical therapy as adequate nutritional support is essential to prevent an extended and complicated hospital stay.
  • Dietetics has been defined as the science and art of feeding individuals based on the principles of nutrition.
  • Dieticians play an important role in terms of managing the nutrition support of terminally ill patients.
  • GAIMS provide the round the clock dietitian counselling for OPD and IPD patient along with ANC patient.
  • GAIMS provide free of cost food to Indoor patient under the guidance of dietetics department.
  • Preventive Dietetics and Diet Counseling occupy an important place in modern health care. Dieticians play a major role in enteral and parenteral nutrition and in pre and post-operative care of surgical patients apart from conventional therapeutic dietetics.
  • Proper dietary care can greatly affect help in early recovery of the patient and thus determines the average length of patients hospital stay.
  • GAIMS Activities of dietetics services included:-
    1. Clinical services (Diet Counseling)
    2. Nutrition information /communication
    3. Food services
    4. Wellness / disease prevention