Bagerhat Correspondent :
Under the joint auspices of Public Health Nutrition Institution, Public Health Department and Ministry of Public Health and Family Planning Welfare brisk preparations are afoot here to make the National Vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign a success in Bagerhat on July 16.
In this connection Bagerhat District Public Health Department arranged a workshop on the topic in the auditorium of Bagerhat Press Club with the local journalists of both print and electronic Medias with Dr A C Mondol, Civil Surgeon of Bagerhat in the chair on Tuesday morning to ventilate the matter widely among the people through the news medias.
The key note paper on the topic was presented by Dr Prodip Kumar Bakshi, Medical Officer, Civil Surgeon Office, Bagerhat. He explained, vitamin ‘A’ is not produced automatically in the bodies of the children. So, they should require it from the outside and vitamin A capsule helps them to take it easily. He added, for want of vitamin ‘A’ children may suffer from blindness, night blindness and loss the resistance power to fight against diarrhea and various other infectious and fatal diseases. So, the all concerned should come forward to make the vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign a success. He further disclosed, some 16,184 children of 6 months to 11th months will be given vitamin ‘A’ capsules of blue colour and some 1,36,122 children from 1year to 1.5 years will be given vitamin ‘A’ plus capsules of red colour from as many as 1,982 inoculation centers in the nine upazilas and two pourashavas in the whole of Bagerhat district on July 16 and some 5,946 volunteers and field workers are ready to make the campaign a success.
Md. Mamunur Rashid, ADC (Education – ICT), Bagerhat while was speaking in the workshop as the chief guest he urged the all concerned to make the vitamin A capsule campaign a success for the greater interest of our future generations. The workshop was also addressed among others by Prof ABM Mosharraf Husain, Moazzem Hossain Majnu, Ahsanul Karim, M. Akbor Tutul and Md. Abu Sayeed.
Under the joint auspices of Public Health Nutrition Institution, Public Health Department and Ministry of Public Health and Family Planning Welfare brisk preparations are afoot here to make the National Vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign a success in Bagerhat on July 16.
In this connection Bagerhat District Public Health Department arranged a workshop on the topic in the auditorium of Bagerhat Press Club with the local journalists of both print and electronic Medias with Dr A C Mondol, Civil Surgeon of Bagerhat in the chair on Tuesday morning to ventilate the matter widely among the people through the news medias.
The key note paper on the topic was presented by Dr Prodip Kumar Bakshi, Medical Officer, Civil Surgeon Office, Bagerhat. He explained, vitamin ‘A’ is not produced automatically in the bodies of the children. So, they should require it from the outside and vitamin A capsule helps them to take it easily. He added, for want of vitamin ‘A’ children may suffer from blindness, night blindness and loss the resistance power to fight against diarrhea and various other infectious and fatal diseases. So, the all concerned should come forward to make the vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign a success. He further disclosed, some 16,184 children of 6 months to 11th months will be given vitamin ‘A’ capsules of blue colour and some 1,36,122 children from 1year to 1.5 years will be given vitamin ‘A’ plus capsules of red colour from as many as 1,982 inoculation centers in the nine upazilas and two pourashavas in the whole of Bagerhat district on July 16 and some 5,946 volunteers and field workers are ready to make the campaign a success.
Md. Mamunur Rashid, ADC (Education – ICT), Bagerhat while was speaking in the workshop as the chief guest he urged the all concerned to make the vitamin A capsule campaign a success for the greater interest of our future generations. The workshop was also addressed among others by Prof ABM Mosharraf Husain, Moazzem Hossain Majnu, Ahsanul Karim, M. Akbor Tutul and Md. Abu Sayeed.
