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JUTH Plans To Suspend In-patient Feeding by Period007(m): 6:34am On Sep 25, 2016 |
The Management of the Jos University Teaching Hospital
(JUTH ), has threatened to stop the feeding of in - patients,
if complaints against the gesture persisted .
The Chief Medical Director (CMD ), Prof . Edmund Banwat ,
told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos , during the
week that the initiative , which was heavily subsidised by
the hospital , might stop , if patients were not appreciative .
He said , “ we see the feeding of in - patients as a social
service, which we run at a heavy loss; as a specialist
hospital with referral cases, we know that feeding form
part of the patients’ management therapy . “ We subisdise
the feeding , as we charge N 100 for breakfast and N 150
for lunch and super each. “Our desire is to ensure that
patients are fed with food rich in the required nutrients
that are crucial to their recovery process , as prescribed by
the physicians . “We expect the patients to cooperate with
us and appreciate this gesture and not complaints from
people ; alleging that we are forcing people to pay for food
they do not want to eat . “ We have tried to educate them
but we may be forced to review the gesture if the
complaints persist ” .
He expressed surprise on the allegation that diabetic
patients were being forced to eat carbohydrates, stressing
that it was the physicians ’ instructions that determined the
meals. Banwat said the programme was even of
advantage to the patients’ relations , since JUTH was far
from Jos city centre , saying that it would save them the
cost of bringing food to patients from the town
everyday . “The feeding has also helped to minimise cases
in which, relations of patients turned all corners of JUTH
into cooking points that caused smoke to spread all over
the place, ” he said .
Corroborating Banwat , Sir Michel Odi , the JUTH ’ s Chief
Catering Officer , said that the feeding of patients used to
be free until the outfit became a teaching hospital . He
explained that, “ as a specialist hospital , feeding is part of
the therapy and one crucial way of managing patients on
admission. “ The doctors determine what constitutes the
meals of patients. They decide whether or not the meals
should contain high protein , low salt , carbohydrate , sugar ,
starch. “We , therefore , insist that patients should pay for
the food while depositing money for drugs and beds but
some patients oppose such policy, insisting that, “we
cannot force them to eat here . “But we have a duty to
manage them ; since they are here , they should subject
themselves to the rule in their own interest , ” he said .
On diabetic patients, Odi said that dieticians usually
review their cases to determine the quantity of
carbohydrates or protein permissible in their meals.
NAN |
Re: JUTH Plans To Suspend In-patient Feeding by Immatex(m): 6:55am On Sep 25, 2016 |
In Patient feeding should be encouraged and perfected in all specialist hospital. I had myself enjoyed it's benefits at great cost. Hence, where it's subsidized, good and healthy, it must not be discontinued but encouraged. |
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