Nutrition
The Nutrition Service at Kiziguro District Hospital provides comprehensive nutrition assessment, counselling, treatment, and follow-up to patients and the community. The service promotes healthy eating, prevents malnutrition, and supports patients in achieving better health outcomes through appropriate nutritional care.
Nutrition Service Package includes:
- Nutritional assessment and screening.
- Nutrition counselling and education.
- Management of malnutrition, including acute malnutrition.
- Therapeutic and supplementary feeding.
- Nutrition support for pregnant and breastfeeding women.
- Infant and young child feeding counselling.
- Dietary management for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.
- Development of individualized nutrition care plans.
- Monitoring and follow-up of patients' nutritional status.
- Community nutrition education and prevention of malnutrition.
- Referral and coordination with other clinical services when specialized nutritional support is required.
