<p>The module allows to define following masters</p>

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<ol>
	<li>Meal master with meal code, meal description (Eg, Juice, Lunch, Milk, Dinner,,,) with Price and approximate time during which the meal to be served to patient</li>
	<li>Diet Type Master: This is useful to instruct canteen person the type of food to be served for a given patient. For example, Liquid diet, Soft diet, salt restricted diet, Fat free diet etc</li>
	<li>Meal Type Master:&nbsp;. Hospital decide different meal combos comprising different meals. For example one combo can include only Lunch and Dinner, The other combo can include Breakfast, Lunch, Snack and Dinner. The combo can be decided based on packages. For example if hospital wants to give Lunch and Dinner to Govt Scheme patients, they can create a type called Govt.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Meal frequency master: This allows the user to add meals for each meal type defined in previous master. So, user can add Lunch and Dinner to Govt Type one by one.&nbsp;</li>
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<p>Requesting and Confirming meals by Dietician.</p>

<ol>
	<li>Meal Request: Using this option, dietician can make requests for each patient. Default meal will appear as per the meal combo selected but dietician will be able to change the same.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Meal Confirmation: Using this option, dietician provides confirmation of each meal for each patient by selecting the actual meal provided.&nbsp; This helps in making payment to the canteen at a later stage</li>
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<p>Meal Report</p>

<ol>
	<li>User can generate detail or summary report for a given period providing Patient wise meals along with charges. It will also provide date wise - meal type wise summary of number of meals and amount for each</li>
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<p>Remarks:</p>

<ol>
	<li>It is assumed that&nbsp;the dietician prescribes specific diet (meals) to a patient two times in a day for morning half or evening half.Once a specific combo is sugggested for the patient, it will be considered as a default combo next time onwards. Dietician can change the combo</li>
	<li>System maintain Meal as per plan, meal requested and meal provided for future analysis</li>
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