KIT, NUTRITION OUTPATIENT, 250 patients 2021

Material to set up and manage an ambulatory therapeutic feeding centre treating acutely malnourished children. The kit 2021 replaces the previous kit.

This kit is composed of different parts to weigh, measure, register and provide systematic medical and nutritional treatments to 250 malnourished children according to MSF nutritional protocols and MSF Paediatric Guidelines. It was designed on the premise that there is not an existing or planned outpatient department (OPD) in the project, so that it could be a self-sustaining centre treating basic medical conditions and providing nutritional treatment.

• The anthropometric kit provides the necessary equipment for measuring and weighing children during nutritional surveys and for monitoring children admitted to an inpatient or outpatient nutritional centre.
• The registration module contains medical stationary and identification materials.
• The equipment module contains distribution materials.
• The medical supplies module also contains items for stabilising children before they are transferred to an inpatient unit.
• The diagnostic material module contains a glucometer, haemoglobinometer and HIV rapid tests. Additional HIV rapid tests are included in the kit to cover 250 patients according to MSF HIV protocols.
• The medicines modules contain medicines for systematic treatment in an outpatient nutritional centre and medicines to stabilise a child and start emergency treatment before transfer to an inpatient unit.
• Therapeutic food is optional. Items and quantities have been calculated according to MSF nutritional protocols for 250 children for 3 months, with an average weight of 7 kg:
• 2 RUTF per child per day (170kcal/kg/day)
• 5%:12 children on BP100 (170kcal/kg/day)
• The checklists (CL) contain medicines that may be needed for the most common medical conditions. The quantities are based on 250 malnourished children presenting to an outpatient nutrition centre. These lists will be used to check wether these medicines are already available at the project level and/or wether if there is need to place an additional order.

• The modules and/or items which are optional must be ordered separately. They are NOT automatically sent with the kit.
• It is necessary to place a separate order with the psychotropic drugs and narcotics (KMEDMNUTO35C). Contact your supply centre for the import procedure of these medicines (Cf Introduction in the Medical catalogue: Narcotic and psychotropic medicines under international control)
• As soon as the ambulatory feeding centre is operational, the consumption data should be used to calculate the next replenishment order.