Learning Outcomes

When you have studied this session, you should be able to:

• Define and use correctly all of the key words printed in bold.
• List the steps for identifying severely malnourished children who require in-patient treatment, and differentiate them from those children who can be treated on an out-patient basis.
• Describe the admission, referral, and discharge criteria to and from the out-patient therapeutic programme (OTP).
• Explain the key management and follow-up actions for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) using the OTP protocol.
• List what information should be entered in the recording and reporting formats.
• Outline the procedures to organise a health facility set up for out-patient treatment of SAM.