Abstract:
he outpatient therapeutic feeding program (OTP) is one of the Community based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) components where children aged 6-59 months and without medical complications advent of ready to use therapeutic food (RUTF) and routine medication in their homes. Despite numerous advances made in improving child health and the clinical management protocols for treating severe acute malnutrition at treatment centers, spreads of shreds of evidence concerning the time to recovery and predictors associated are scarce in the study setting.