What kind of food should hospitals serve to the families of those tending to their ill.

I’ve been in the unfortunate situation of seeing some family through prolonged illness. Not as a primary caregiver. But close enough to see how one is forced to eat. Or the options available.

It is appalling. Some of this stuff is street-side cuisine. Deep-fried with salt, sugar and fat. If you’re thinking it’s atleast hygienic, you are missing the point. If you think they should use ghee to fry the food, that’s certified delusional.

My dreary conclusion is hospitals serve people whatever food they will eat. A girl munched down two doughnuts. And a bunch of parrothas. This was the average table.

If the hospital didn’t serve it, these folks will walk down to a corner shop that will give them that.

Is the onus or moral imperative for a hospital to force people to make healthier choices as they eat during a stressful time?

Or do they make it more convenient to make familiar, comfortable choices and of course a profit of those. After all, hospitals could rationalise by arguing are the few meals a person eats here be the ones that force people to rethink how they eat?

Just because we associate hospitals with health, it’s not their business to educate you on how to make healthier choices. Especially when you are not the patient.