Vitamin A plus campaign Saturday

Staff Correspondent: Children, aged between six months and five years, will be fed Vitamin A plus capsules under a national campaign on Saturday (August 5).

Around 22.5 million children will be brought under this campaign, State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Zahid Maleque told a recent press briefing at the secretariat.

Children, aged between six and 11 months, will be given the blue-coloured high-powered Vitamin A capsules, while children, aged between 12 to 59 months, will receive the red-coloured ones.

The state minister Maleque said children will be fed the vitamin A capsule at some 1,20,000 permanent health centres and 20,000 mobile centres across the country.

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