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Source: Nutrition Division, 2017

NUTRITION CONSULTATION SERVICES IN HEALTH CLINICS

Nutrition Consultation Service is one of the important services given by Nutritionist to patients whom
are being referred by Family Medicine Specialist (FMS) or Medical Officer in the health clinic.

Overall, there is an increase trend of cases being referred annually for nutrition consultation services.
A total of 201,300 patients have been received nutrition consultations in 2017 compared to 185,735
patients in 2016 (an increase of 8.4 per cent). Nutrition counselling services were given to 63,169 cases
for underweight children (31.4 per cent), 39157 cases (19.5 per cent) for gestational diabetes mellitus
(GDM), 35,910 cases for anaemia (17.8 per cent), 18,339 cases for diabetes mellitus (9.1 per cent) and
the remaining 44,725 cases (22.2 per cent) were for overweight and obesity cases, hyperlipidaemia,
hypertension, breastfeeding and other nutrition-related problems.

Figure 70
Number and Type of Patients Given Nutrition Consultation by Nutritionist from
2013 to 2017

Source: State Health Department, 2017

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