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Assessment of Food Services Pre-requisite Program in a Tertiary Hospital in Egypt


 
 
 Hospital food service systems are one of the most complicated processes where safety in this sector is considered high priority issue due to high susceptibility of hospital population.
 
 
 
 Our objectives were to identify the pre-requisite program components and the degree of compliance with these components in Ain Shams University Specialized Hospital.
 
 
 
 A team was formed, identification of the prerequisite program components was carried out and a check list for determining the compliance with the identified components was used.
 
 
 
 From our study it was found that there is a severe lack in the prerequisite program items. Only 25% of the items were achieved, and the implementation of the prerequisite items ratio was 59.4% with severe lack of temperature control in the different stages of the food flow.
 
 
 
 The present study showed that the necessary founding element of any food safety program, comprising the policies, operating procedures and similar organizing documents which was deficient in the studied hospital. Similarly, implementation of the basic required sanitation aspects in food handling was almost half applied. Reconsideration of basic underlying system for food services is mandated in our hospital.
