CLINICAL INFORMATION

Dietetics is practiced as an arm of medicine that deals with human nutrition and the regulation of diet to meet the needs of individual or target groups whether in disease or health condition. Dietetics department, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti gives a detailed treatment of patients, using therapeutic diet. The target group that falls under our treatment includes the elderly, pregnant adults, adolescence and children. We care for patients from all the clinics in the hospital namely: Pediatrics, Antenatal, Oncology, Dental, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Urology, Burns, Accident and Emergency, Care and Support clinic, Staff clinic, General Surgery and Neurosurgery.

CLINIC DAYS

● Dietetic Endocrine Clinic- Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (10:00 am)
● Dietetic Cardiac Clinic – Tuesdays and Thursdays. (10:00 am)
● Care and Support Nutrition Clinic- Tuesdays and Thursdays (9:00 am)
● Obstetrics and Gynecology Nutrition Clinic- Tuesdays and Thursdays (9:00 am)
● Community Health Nutrition Clinic- Wednesdays (9:30 am)
● Daily Dietetic Ward round
● Kitchen management unit.

CLINICAL SERVICES RENDERED

The services rendered can be broadly divided into two:
In-patient services
● Daily ward round to counsel referred patients based on their diseased condition.
● Daily kitchen management for supervision and menu preparation for in-patient.
Out – patient services
● Dietetic endocrine clinic- Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (10:00 am)
● Dietetic Cardiac Clinic – Tuesdays and Thursdays. (10:00 am)
● Care and Support Nutrition Clinic- Tuesdays and Thursdays (9:00 am)
● Obstetric and Gynecology Nutrition Clinic- Tuesdays and Thursdays (9:00 am)
● Community Health Nutrition Clinic- Wednesdays (9:30 am)
Other services includes;
● Production of fortifier
● Production of action meal

Training Programme

Training of IT Students

EVENTS

In the department, we observe annual celebration of events such as World Food Day Celebration, Dietitian-Nutritionist Day Celebration and World Diabetic Day.

FUTURE EXPANSION PLAN

Dietetic department, FETHI, Ido Ekiti, plans future expansion in the following areas;
●Training in specialty of renal nutrition, geriatric nutrition, pediatric nutrition, endocrine/ metabolic disorders nutrition, etc
● Plan in the future to be an internship centre.
● To be a first class dietetic centre in future.