National Vitamin-A Plus campaign will be start in three Upazilas of Narail district on Sunday (12 June) and it will be continuing till June 15. A total of 98,018 children of 6 months to 5 years age group will be feed vitamin A plus capsule in Sadar, Lohagora and Kalia Upazilas of the district.
In the occasion, a press briefing was held at Civil surgeon conference room on Thursday at 12:30 pm.
Civil surgeon Dr Nacchima Akter presided over the meeting while Dr Subrato Halder, Dr Suvashis Biswas, Zillur Rahman, among others present on the occasion.
The Civil Surgeon delivered welcome speech narrating about the importance of providing Vitamin-A Plus Capsule to every under five baby to prevent various diseases for healthier growth. Vitamin A Plus Capsule has no side effect and asked the parents not to become afraid and contact the health officials concerned if their babies would show vomiting tendency after taking the capsule. The campaign opened at selected centres at 8:00 am to 4:00 pm and also the bus stands and floating places to bring all children under the programme. CS in his concluding speech called upon the parents, teachers, public representatives, civil society members and media persons to make the upcoming National Vitamin A Plus Campaign successful.
Dr Subrato Halder laid emphasis on providing Vitamin-A Plus Capsule to every under- five baby to increase their disease resistant capacity for further reducing infant mortality rate and preventing night blindness.
Civil surgeon office sources said, under the programme, the health department adequate measures to provide vitamin-A capsule (blue color) of six months to 11 months baby to 12,040 children and vitamin-A capsule (red color) to 85,978 children of one to five years age group. Some 2,352 field level health workers, volunteers and supervisors were engaged at 991 centres in 39 unions and three municipalities under the district to make the programme successful.