Nutrition
Nutrition units at Gatonde district hospitals function as essential paramedical and clinical departments. They assess patient nutritional status, manage malnutrition, design therapeutic diets for chronic conditions like diabetes or renal illness, and provide maternal-child counseling to support overall recovery and health.
Core Clinical Services
- Nutritional Screening: Assessing patient body composition and identifying undernutrition, deficiencies, or metabolic risks upon admission.
- Therapeutic Diets: Formulating modified meal plans (such as low-sodium, diabetic, renal, or specific texture-adjusted diets) for inpatients.
- Specialized Feeding: Managing medical nutrition support, including enteral (tube) feeding and oversight of parenteral nutrition when indicated.
Outpatient and Community Support
- Dietary Counseling: Providing targeted individual or family education sessions on healthy eating and disease-specific nutrition management.
- Malnutrition Treatment: Rehabilitation programs focused on vulnerable groups, including infants, young children under five, and pregnant or breastfeeding mothers.
- Health Center Linkages: Overseeing community outreach and mentoring local health centers on nutrition tracking and growth monitoring.
Head of Department
Nutrition
MUKESHIMANA Marie Louise
Head of Service
0788294921