News Desk :
The national Vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign will start across the country from October 4 and to be continued till October 17 for feeding vitamin A plus capsules to all children aged between six and 59 months.
Line Director Dr SM Mustafizur Rahman of the Institute of Public Health Nutrition (IPHN) informed the media at the IPHN auditorium in the city’s Mohakhali area.
To contain the spread of Covid-19 infection, the campaign will be held at different centers across the country on different days during this period. Date for any certain area will be announced locally three days earlier.
Some 2.4 million children aged between six to12 months will be given blue capsules, while around 19.3 million children aged between one to five years will be given red capsules.
Children aged below six months or over five years or with any kind of illness should not be given the capsule.
According to officials, health workers will also go to people’s doorstep to feed the capsules to those children who will miss it during the campaign.
