Rehabilitation
Nutrition services
Nutrition assessments, inpatient care, caregiver education and take-home food packages for children with disability.
Overview
About nutrition
CoRSU offers nutrition services to children with disability, including assessments, inpatient care, caregiver education and take-home nutritious packages for vulnerable children. The aim is to address malnutrition and to promote recovery.
Good nutrition often has to come first. A child who is underweight may need nutrition support before they are strong enough for surgery, and many of the children the clinic supports were born with a cleft lip or palate.
A dysphagia clinic addresses feeding and swallowing difficulties in children with oral-facial and neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Specialist clinics
Named clinics linked to this service, as reported in the CoRSU Annual Report 2024.
Nutrition clinic
Call to confirm the day
Dysphagia (feeding and swallowing) clinic
Call to confirm the day
Clinic days can change. Please call+256 761 002 111to confirm before you travel.
2024 in numbers
This service in 2024
Figures from the CoRSU Annual Report 2024.
- patients assessed and screened in the nutrition clinic2024
- 1,467
- children with a cleft lip or palate supported2024
- 990
Patient story
Daniel’s comprehensive care journey
Daniel was born with a cleft lip and palate and came to CoRSU at three days old. Nutrition support, two operations and speech and language therapy followed.
What we do
Other services at CoRSU
For patients
Need this service?
Request an appointment, call us, or come to the hospital during clinic hours. Our team will guide you from there.
For supporters
Help fund this care
Children aged five and under are treated free at CoRSU, and older children at a subsidised rate. Gifts from people like you make that possible.