For the first time, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s Sewri Tuberculosis (TB) Hospital will introduce non-veg food as a high-protein diet option to patients.
Last month, the civic body took decision to include chicken dish for non-vegetarian patients and extra high protein meal for vegetarian patients twice a week for lunch or dinner.
In 2014, the BMC awarded the contract to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) to prepare meals for such patients at the 750-bed Sewri TB Hospital, Asia's largest tuberculosis hospital.
Despite, patients always felt lack of essential nutrients, animal protein, garlic and ginger. Therefore, after several demands, corporators included non-vegetarian food in the diet. Earlier, patients were given eggs but that was not suffice.
The official added that the tendering process is on and the new diet plan will be rolled out soon.
As per reports, the extra high protein diet for non-vegetarian patients will include four chapatis, rice, dal, usal (twice a week for all patients), and chicken curry that will have 60gms of chicken. The extra high protein diet for vegetarian patients replaces chicken curry with paneer/soya chunks.
In addition, the civic body has also decided to introduce a soft non-spicy diet which will have soft-cooked khichdi, porridge (made of ragi/rawa/daliya/sewai) and a liquid diet, which will include vegetable soup, coconut water or dal, porridge (ragi/rawa/rice), buttermilk.
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