Nutrition Unit of Masih Daneshvari Hospital

Chief nutritionist
Dr. Mansoor Rezaie

Chief nutritionist: Dr. Mansoor Rezaie, born in 1972, PhD student of nutritional science, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Phone number: 20105050 Ext. 354

Introduction:
 Mr. Rezaei has been in charge of this service since Jan. 2002. Mrs. Hengameh Kazemi, Raheleh BabaPour, Afrooz Asghar Zadeh Oliayee and Mr. Mohammad Ali Hojjati Kermani are the other employees of this service. Mr. Ali Taefeh is the kitchen supervisor. Nine other cooks are also working in the kitchen.
The hospital administrator is planning to have the kitchen run by the private sector in the near future. All stages of procurement, preparation and distribution of cooking supply as well as providing dietary regimens are done under the supervision of nutritionists.
Providing various dietary regimens according to the needs of the hospitalized patients is performed by this unit

according to the following:
- For each patient, when the diagnosis is made by the physician, a consultation request will be sent for the nutritionists.  They will provide a nutrition counseling and dietary regimen program for the patient based on his/her nutritional limitations.
- According to the daily list of patients offered by the admission unit, all hospitalized patients will be instructed by the nutritionists.
- Active cooperation with lung transplantation clinic and offering nutrition counseling for all cardiovascular, renal disease, etc patients. Due to the significant role of nutrition in children’s mental and physical development as well as management of diseases, for all children hospitalized in the pediatric ward, nutrition training and counseling will be provided as both oral and written.

Target patients:
TB patients, patients with acute or chronic malnutrition, diabetic patients, those with hyperlipidemia or hypertension, uremic patients, those with renal insufficiency or dialysis patients, patients with oncologic diseases, anorexic patients, those being fed through nasogastric tubes, ICU and CCU patients, etc
- Receiving the computerized list of patients with special dietary regimens in each ward from the hospital network as well as the number of personnel and patients of each ward to figure out the daily items required by the kitchen for cooking to be forwarded to the kitchen store and also preparing different dietary regimen stickers for patients with special diets and forwarding them to the kitchen

Admission:
Patients are usually referred to this unit by the physicians of this hospital and sometimes other hospitals. 


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