Bulbin Jos
Dubai Health Authority, UAE
Title: Role of Nutrition in improving quality of quality of patient care
Biography
Biography: Bulbin Jos
Abstract
A safe and nutritious food supply is a vital component of food security. Ensuring food quality and food safety is equally
significant for the welfare of an individual, a community and a nation. Many human illnesses are food-related. Nutritional
status and economic well-being are affected by food carrying pathogenic organisms and their toxins and by poisonous
chemicals. Unsafe food, whether arising from poor quality supplies or inadequate treatment and preparation, increases the
risk of foodborne infections such as diarrhea. These infections have a much higher impact on populations of poor nutritional
status, where diarrhea can easily lead to serious illness and death. Food safety in hospitals is described as the scientific way by
which food is prepared, handled and stored in hospital settings. Any food that is prepared in hospital kitchens are like food
prepared in other places such as canteens, hotels and restaurants and even homes, sourced from outside. This food comes from
suppliers whose hygiene has to be ensured. Food hazards can come in many forms, including, but not limited to biological,
chemical, physical, and allergenic hazards. Indeed, poor nutrition and foodborne disease often join hands in a vicious cycle of
worsening health. For example, poor nutritional status weakens resistance against diarrhea, which in turn, leads to the uptake
of fewer nutrients and poorer nutritional status.