Staff Reporter :
The Vitamin A plus campaign began across the country yesterday, aiming to feed vitamin A plus capsules to more than 2.30 crore children aged 6-59 months.
The capsules will be given at all the EPI vaccination centres, community clinics, and other healthcare centres of the country from 8:00am to 4:00pm till Friday.
Blue-coloured vitamin A capsules will be given to some 27 lakh children aged 6-11 months, while the red-coloured ones will be given to the rest of the children aged 11-59 months.
Health Minister Zahid Maleque inaugurated the campaign at a discussion held at the NIPSOM auditorium at Mohakhali in Dhaka.
The Secretary of the Health Services Division Jahangir Alam presided over the meeting.