Evaluation of hospital diets in five hospitals at Dhaka city.

The study was undertaken to assess the prevalent situation of diets provide to different types of patients in five hospitals at Dhaka. Calorie content of foods supplied to the patients was about 50% of the calorie that was mentioned on diet menus for different hospitals. The patients intake of food supplied by the hospital was very low. Except BIRDEM, majority of the patients in other hospitals were not satisfied with different types of foods supplied to them by the hospitals. Calorie, carbohydrate, protein, vegetable fat, iron and calcium intake by the patients differ significantly (p = 0.03-0.001) in different hospitals. The hospital diet is imbalanced to met therapeutic need.