KIT, NUTRITION INPATIENT, 50 patients 2021

Material to set-up and run an inpatient therapeutic feeding centre (ITFC) for acutely malnourished children. The kit 2021 replaces the previous kit.

This kit is composed of different parts to set-up an inpatient therapeutic feeding centre (ITFC) to treat 50 acutely malnourished children, according to MSF nutritional protocols and MSF Paediatric Guidelines. It was designed with the assumption that there is no existing or planned paediatric inpatient ward in the project, making it a self-sustaining centre that treats medical complications and provides nutritional treatment.

• Anthropometric kit : provides the necessary equipment for measuring and weighing children during nutritional surveys or for monitoring children admitted to in-patient or outpatient nutritional centres.
• Registration module : contains medical stationary and identification materials.
• Equipmentmodule: contains cooking and distribution equipment.
• Medical suppliesmodule: contains disposable items for single use and dressings for malnutrition-related skin disorders, including kwashiorkor skin lesions.
• Diagnostic materialmodule: contains a glucometer, a haemoglobinometer, and HIV rapid tests.
• Medicines module: contains items to treat the most common medical complications.
• Resuscitation module: contains an oxygen concentrator, oximeter, suction pump, and the necessary items to perform resuscitations.

Check whether the hospital already has the power supply for the oxygen concentrator and other resuscitation machines. if not, a power supply module, generator, and voltage limiter must be ordered separately (see related articles).

Therapeutic food is optional. Please, contact your OC Nutrition referent for the selection of items and quantities to be ordered.

• The modules and/or items that are optional must be ordered separately. They are NOT automatically sent with the kit.
• A separate order must be placed for psychotropic drugs and narcotics (KMEDMNUTI36C). Contact your supply centre for the import procedure of those medicines (Cf Introduction in the Medical catalogue:: Narcotic and psychotropic medicines under international control)
• As soon as the ITFC is operational, consumption data should be used to calculate the next replenishment order.