Step 1: Screening

Screening is the first half of the dose form. You record the child’s measurements, who came with them, any medical history, and decide whether the child can receive the drops today. This page is for health workers (GeneralUser) and anyone else who doses children.

The form header shows the child’s name (a link to their profile), UPC and gender. Below it two numbered circles show where you are: Phase 01 Screening and Phase 02 Prashan.

Panels above the form

These appear before any input and are for reading, not typing.

Recommended Dosage (yellow box). The number of Drops for this child’s age, the Batch Code in use, Child Age in months, Dose # (the number this dose will be, counting paper doses too) and, when the child has paper doses, Prior (paper). If no rule matches the child’s age, a box headed This child is not eligible due to age replaces it, with the allowed range and the child’s age. See Age limits below.

Dose Rules Reference. The full age table: Min Age (mo), Max Age (mo), Drops, Remarks. It is the same table an admin maintains in Admin → Dose Rules.

Previous Doses. One row per dose the child has already received on this system: Dose, Date, Batch, Location (the camp day number) and Status. Paper doses are not listed here; they are in the Prior (paper) count.

Two other banners can appear at the top:

• Already dosed on this camp day (blue). The child has a completed dose on this camp day. The whole form is read-only. See Step 2: Giving the dose.
• 60-dose limit reached (red) or Final dose (amber, at dose 60). See the cap on the same page.

Age limits

The age is counted in whole months on the camp day’s date. Two limits apply, on the page and on the server:

• Under the programme’s starting age (12 months). The box is red. The child cannot be dosed, and there is no override for anyone. Next: Prashan stays disabled. Tell the guardian to come back after the child’s first birthday.
• Older than the top age band. The box is amber, with a tick-box Dose this child anyway (above the programme age). Some children continue Prashan past five. Tick it only if the child should be dosed today, then type a Reason, for example continuing on the doctor's advice. The reason is required: until you type it, Next: Prashan stays disabled and the page says Give a reason before recording this dose. The child receives the highest number of drops in the dose rules. The decision applies to today’s dose only and is recorded with your name.

Measurements

Six boxes in a grid. Type numbers only; decimals are fine (95.5).

Field	Unit	Notes
Height	cm	Used with weight for BMI.
Weight	kg	Used for BMI. Also shown in the screened-not-dosed table.
MUAC	cm	Mid-upper arm circumference. Optional.
Head Circumference	cm	Optional.
BMI (auto-calculated)		Not typed. Weight divided by height in metres squared. Shows 0 until both height and weight are filled.
Temp	°F	Optional.

If the BMI is low for the child’s age the BMI box turns red and says Likely underweight — consider referral. Under 5 years the flag is BMI below 13. It is a prompt to you, nothing more; the form does not stop you dosing.

None of the measurements is enforced by the form. Fill in what you measured. The site’s own protocol says which ones are compulsory.

Accompanying Guardian

Required. The dropdown lists every guardian linked to the child as Name (Relation). If the child has one guardian, it is pre-selected.

If the person at the desk is not in the list, pick Other (not in list). Two boxes appear, Name and Relation (for example Uncle, Neighbour, Teacher). Both are required. This records who was present today without adding them as a permanent guardian. If they are going to bring the child regularly, add them as a guardian from the child’s profile later.

Medical History & Exclusion Criteria

Two lists of checkboxes. The note above them says that items marked with a warning sign withhold today’s dose, and the rest are recorded as history only.

• Exclusion criteria (withhold today’s dose) are shown in red with a warning mark. They come from Admin → Exclusion Criteria and mean “do not give the drops today”, for example a fever or an acute illness. Each has an English and a Nepali name, and the page shows them in the language you chose with the language toggle.
• Others (red, with warning mark) is the exclusion for any reason not in the list. Ticking it opens an amber box with Reason for exclusion (text, required) and Adversity Level (Mild, Moderate or Severe, required).
• Medical history items are plain: Gastroenteritis, Respiratory Infections, Myopic, Nutritional Deficit, Autism, Skin Allergies, Recent Surgery, Intestinal Worm Infestations, Developmental / Speech Delay, Under Medication and Other health problem. Ticking one records it on today’s session and feeds the medical-history chart in the camp-day report, together with the conditions ticked at registration. On its own it does not stop the dose.

The free-text box under the list is for extra detail on history: conditions, allergies, medications.

When a child is excluded

As soon as you tick any red item, the form changes:

1. Exclusion Remarks appears. Write the reason in a sentence. Required.
2. A confirmation checkbox appears: Guardian has been informed about the reason of exclusion, and they have been referred to respective medical professional. Required.
3. The Next: Prashan button is replaced by a red Filter Out & End button. The batch code and paper-entry boxes disappear, because no dose will be given.

Press Filter Out & End. The session is saved with status Filtered out, locked, and no dose is recorded. The child’s dose count does not change. The camp-day report counts them under Excluded and the reason appears in the Why Excluded chart. You then see the success screen; press Return to intake.

Excluding is not a failure

An excluded child is a recorded decision. A child who was screened and then simply abandoned is not, and is invisible in every report. Always end the child’s visit with one of the two buttons.

Batch code and paper entry

Below the checkboxes, when the child is not excluded:

• Batch Code. With one batch on the camp day it is shown fixed and used automatically. With several it is a dropdown and you must choose. With none, no dose can be recorded on this camp day. Details in Step 2: Giving the dose.
• Recording a dose given earlier (paper entry). Leave this unticked on a normal Prashan day. It is only for typing in a dose that was given on an earlier day. Read Recording a dose given earlier before using it.

NEXT: PRASHAN

The black Next: Prashan → button is disabled until:

• an accompanying guardian is picked (and, for Other, name and relation are typed);
• the child’s age is within the dose rules, or the over-age box is ticked with a reason (see Age limits);
• the camp day has a batch attached, and a batch code is chosen when there is more than one;
• a dose date is chosen when the paper-entry box is ticked, and it is not in the future;
• the child is under the 60-dose cap.

Pressing it does two things. It stamps the screening end time, and it opens a dose session with status Started on the server with everything you typed. The session belongs to you (the logged-in user) and to this camp day. Then the form moves to Phase 02 Prashan.

A Started session is not a dose

After Next: Prashan the child appears in the system as “screened”, nothing more. If you walk away, search the next child, or the page closes, the Started session stays open and the child is counted under Screened, not dosed. Only Complete Dose on the next step records the drops. If you do come back to the same child on the same camp day, the form reopens the same Started session with your values filled in.

Next: Step 2: Giving the dose.