Medical Nutrition Services

1. MO (Medical Nutrition) will attend to all aspects of Clinical Nutrition Management of patients at

NIMH and Section C – Halfway Home.

2. MO (Medical Nutrition) will function under guidance of the Consultant Physician with regard to patient management.

3. A Medical Nutrition Clinic will be conducted all weekdays at NIMH except on Public Holidays and on every second and fourth Wednesday at Section C - HWH except on Public Holidays.

4. The Medical Nutrition Clinic will function from 8.30 a.m. to 12.00 noon. In Addition the MO (Medical Nutrition) will visit wards to review patients in the afternoons and Saturdays when requested to do so.

5. MO (Medical Nutrition) will be working closely with the Nutritionists and the Diet Branch to regulate and maintain high standards in the Patient and staff diets prepared from the kitchen.

6. All patients that require Medical Nutritional intervention should be referred to the clinic for evaluation and management.

7. E.g.: Patients with Obesity, Malnutrition, and Patients requiring special diets in related debilitating neurological and other disorders, Infants admitted to PPU to better streamline their feeding.

8. Staff will require a referral from a MO/OPD to be reviewed at the Medical Nutrition Clinic.