Patients of MGM medical college hospital will be provided better food as the state health department has raised the rate of the food from Rs 50 to Rs 100 per day provided to them at the hospital.
As there has been a cent percent increase in the rate of food provision, the patients admitted in the medical college hospital will not only get better quality food but will also be able to choose from a variety of food items.
Revealing about the development, superintendent, MGM medical college hospital, Arun Kumar said the state health department authority has increased the rate of food at which the patients would be provided breakfast, lunch and dinner free of cost at the hospital.
"We have received a circular to this effect from the state health department on Monday. Now each patient will be provided food at the rate of Rs 100 per day. Earlier, it was Rs 50 only," said Kumar to The Telegraph Online.
The hospital superintendent said they have received the circular to this effect on Monday and they have to make the necessary changes in the food items according to the enhanced rate.
"Soon after getting the circular, we convened a meeting of the dietician and the food vendors. We are chalking out the new menu for the patients who will be provided the food according to the new rate in the next couple of days," pointed out the superintendent.
The rate of food worth Rs 50 per patient per day was effective from the year 2013. Despite such a low rate, the patients would be given eggs and bananas for breakfast and a unified course meal for lunch and dinner. But during the visit of erstwhile health secretary K.K. Sone to the medical college hospital two months ago, the issue of food provision for the patients had been discussed, leading the health secretary to ask for a hike in the food rate soon.
Annu Sinha, dietician of the medical college, said, "Due to a very low rate of food provision we were compelled to provide a fixed menu for the patients, but shortly we would be able to provide a variety of food as per the requirements of patients."
With a capacity of 600 plus beds, the MGM medical college hospital has an average bed occupancy rate of 90 per cent.
