Hospital food
Last week I was an inpatient in a public hospital. The food was very poor. One of the doctors looking after me, told me that the local health service attempts to feed patients for $2 per day. I wa...
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Very exotic @"Annie C"!
I've had stays in both private and public hospitals (our local public being mostly a facility for elderly people) and I've had good and not so great food in both. Quantity has never been an issue although I always tick "large" so that if there's something I don't like much on the plate, I can leave it. I know when the new Royal Adelaide Hospital was opened, there was outrage over the quality and delivery of food to the wards but from people I know who have been patients since, I believe it has settled down. My beef with them now is that there's no hospital cafeteria for family & other visitors - or not that I have found. It's all contract cafes which I think is appalling for a public hospital given the prices of the food. If you're there with a family member who is really ill, that can add up over days.
I've had stays in both private and public hospitals (our local public being mostly a facility for elderly people) and I've had good and not so great food in both. Quantity has never been an issue although I always tick "large" so that if there's something I don't like much on the plate, I can leave it. I know when the new Royal Adelaide Hospital was opened, there was outrage over the quality and delivery of food to the wards but from people I know who have been patients since, I believe it has settled down. My beef with them now is that there's no hospital cafeteria for family & other visitors - or not that I have found. It's all contract cafes which I think is appalling for a public hospital given the prices of the food. If you're there with a family member who is really ill, that can add up over days.