6/10 of hospitalised patients malnourished
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Around 60% of hospitalised patients in Vietnam are malnourished

VietNamNet Bridge – Around 60% of hospitalised patients in Vietnam are malnourished since hospitals only focus on medical treatment, not nutrition, which makes the recovery process take longer, according to a senior official from the National Burn Hospital.

 

Dr. Nguyen Nhu Lam, Head of the First Aid Department of the National Burn Hospital, released the above information on August 8 at a workshop on the Total Nutritional Therapy programme.

 

At present, medicine is considered the only important thing in the treatment of hospitalised patients. Their diets are not considered to be important.

 

As a result, six of ten patients are malnourished and malnutrition can lead to many serious consequences such as slow recovery of health, disorder for the immune system, the increase of the fatality rate, higher treatment fees, etc.

 

According to many research projects in the world, average expenditures for treatment of normal patients, who are not malnourished, are around $6.585/person, and it is up to $26 for a malnourished patient.

 

To deal with this situation, a training course on nutrition for patients for senior doctors is being held in Vietnam (from August 8-10) which provides attendants with methods to discover malnutrition in hospitalised patients early and to develop nutritional therapies suitably to each patient.

 

Nearly 30 experts from Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam are participating in this course.

 

Huong Cat

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