National vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign will be held in three upazilas of Narail district on Monday. A total of 95,147 children of 6 months to 59 months 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 noon.
Civil surgeon Dr. Sajeda Begum presided over the meeting while Lohagora Upazila Health and Family planning officer Dr SM Masud, Civil surgeon office’s Medical Officer Dr.Subroto Halder, Dr Subashis Biswas, Dr. Ismail Hossain Bappi, Narail Press Club president Enamul Kabir Tuku, former vice-president Sultan Mahmood, district EPI superintendent Haradhan Chandra Majumder among others present on the occasion.
The Civil Surgeon delivered speech narrating about the importance of providing Vitamin A Plus Capsule to every under five years 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 also in his 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 Subroto 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 colour) of six months to 11 months baby to 11,571 childrens and vitamin-A capsule (red colour) to 83,576 childrens of 12 months to 59 months age group.
Some 2,410 field level health workers, volunteers and supervisors were engaged at 1,020 centres in 39 unions and three pouroshavas under the district to make the programme successful.