The West African Society of Parenteral and Enteral Diet, WASPEN, has declared that insufficient dietary help is the primary purpose why many sufferers are spending extra time in hospitals.
WASPEN famous that many sufferers in Nigerian hospitals undergo from insufficient dietary help, leading to extended hospital stays.
WASPEN President, Dr. Teresa Kilos, made these revelations whereas addressing a web based press convention heralding the 2025 WASPEN Scientific Diet Convention on Monday.
Kilos, whereas talking on the press convention held in collaboration with the Nationwide Hospital Abuja and attended by DAILY POST and different journalists, stated that poor dietary help is resulting in elevated issues and better mortality charges.
She defined that the difficulty have to be addressed urgently.
She used the chance to name on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to make scientific malnutrition a nationwide healthcare precedence.
Kilos, whereas talking additional, maintained that the current authorities ought to implement a nationwide coverage framework to help specialised scientific diet interventions.
She additional referred to as on the federal and state ministries of well being to broaden and implement standardized scientific diet insurance policies.
She suggested them to make sure that hospitals conduct structured diet screening for all sufferers and make medical diet remedy accessible and reasonably priced.
Kilos, who described malnutrition as “the skeleton within the hospital’s closet,” emphasised the necessity for pressing consciousness, coverage reform, and collaboration amongst healthcare stakeholders to make sure efficient hospital diet packages.
She stated, “Many sufferers in Nigerian hospitals undergo from insufficient dietary help, resulting in extended hospital stays, elevated issues, and better mortality charges. This problem have to be addressed on the highest degree.
“We want a nationwide framework that ensures no affected person suffers attributable to an absence of correct diet.”
