Vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign on Saturday

The national Vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign will be observed across Bangladesh on Saturday, aiming to feed Vitamin A plus capsules to 21 million children aged between six and 59 months, reports news agency UNB.

Health minister Zahid Maleque said this at a press briefing at the office of Directorate General of Health Services on Thursday.

Children aged between six to eleven months will be fed one blue colour Vitamin-A capsule, while those aged between 12 to 59 months would be fed red coloured capsules from 8:00am to 4:00pm on the day, he said.

They will be given Vitamin A capsule at some 120,000 permanent and 20,000 mobile health centres across the country.

Zahid Maleque also said that mobile health centres has been set up at bus stands, railway stations, launch terminals, airports, ferry terminals, bridge toll centres and kheya ghats which will remain open from 8:00am to 4:00pm to make sure that all children are fed the capsules.

The children of the remote areas under 240 unions in 42 upazilas of 12 districts will be fed the capsules in the next four days of the campaign day through conducting a search programme.

Besides, to make the campaign success, a total 280,000 volunteers have been trained. Control room will be opened in every upazila, district and all centres on the day for monitoring the campaign, he added.

The campaign in Gazipur City Corporation will be observed in 25 January instead on 11 January for Biswa Ijtema.