Vitamin A plus campaign Saturday

Secretariat Correspondent:  The national vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign will be observed on Saturday (Feb 9).

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malek said this at a press conference held at the Secretariat on Thursday.

Under the campaign, children aged between six and 11 months will be given blue colored vitamin ‘A’ capsule while children aged between 12 and 59 months will be given red colored high-power capsules.

On that day, 2.20 crore children will be fed vitamin ‘A’ plus capsules at one lakh and 20 thousand centres across the country from 8am to 4pm.

Institute of Public Health Nutrition under the Health and Family Welfare Ministry has been conducting the annual campaign to feed vitamin ‘A’ capsules to children at national level since 1974.

Earlier, the Institute of Public Health Nutrition postponed this year’s campaign that was scheduled to be held on January 19 due to unavoidable circumstances.


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