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Due to the Corona epidemic, the Vitamin ‘A’ Plus Campaign has started in June of each year. Starting today, Sunday (October 4), it will continue until October 16. On Sunday, Health Minister Zahid Malek launched the ‘A’ campaign at the Dhaka Children’s Hospital.
The Health Minister said that the national vitamin A plus campaign will be launched nationwide in a two-week phase from October 4-16. The campaign will run throughout the country from 8 am to 4 pm. And after the campaign is over, this campaign will continue for four more days in remote areas.
“After independence, more than four percent of the children suffered night blindness due to a lack of vitamin A capsules,” he said. Many children would go blind. Today that situation is not there, it has changed. ‘ Ratkana’s disease is now below one percent, he hopes it will not be in the future.
Zahid Malek said: ‘Vitamin is necessary for everyone, of which vitamin’ A ‘is important. Vitamin A not only prevents night blindness, but also helps the child to grow up physically and mentally healthy. Increase your immunity. However, breast milk is the most ideal food for a baby, as well as other balanced foods are needed.
More than two billion health workers participate in this campaign. Vitamin A capsules will be administered to some 22 million children in 120,000 centers across the country. The Health Minister asked to bring the 59-year-old children from six months and feed them with vitamin ‘A’ capsules. He said: ‘This arrangement has also been made for those who live in remote areas. Bangladesh will advance only when children grow up healthy.
And the line manager of the public health nutrition organization. SSM Mustafizur Rahman said that so far 98 percent of children are receiving vitamin A. However, this capsule should be taken on an empty stomach, not an empty stomach. Then they will have no problem. Also, sick children will not be fed these capsules, they will be fed when they are healthy.
He said that more vitamin ‘A’ capsules would be given to each center daily to deal with the corona situation. The local administration will announce the schedule three days in advance. However, this year there is no mobile center like other years.
The Vitamin ‘A’ Plus campaign will be closed in all centers where vaccination activities against RPE will take place weekly. As such, the Vitamin ‘A’ Plus campaign will run four days a week.
Mostafizur Rahman said the campaign was suspended last June due to the Corona epidemic this year. At the same time, he expressed concern about whether it would be possible to include all children in the campaign.
He said that surgical masks will be provided to health workers and volunteers working in the field as a precaution during the campaign. Approximately 20 lakh 40 thousand children between the ages of six and 12 months will receive blue capsules and about one crore 93 lakh children between the ages of one to five years will receive red capsules. Capsules will not be given to any sick child younger than six months and older than five months. If any children are left out during the campaign, health workers will go from house to house and take more vitamin ‘A’ capsules.
Vitamin A not only protects children from blindness due to malnutrition, but vitamin A increases the child’s immunity, reduces the severity and complications of diarrhea, and reduces the risk of death for the child. To prevent the problem of vitamin A deficiency in Bangladesh, the National Nutrition Service, Public Health Nutrition Institute under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare runs the National Vitamin A Plus Campaign every year.
However, on the day of the campaign, children under six months, over five, children who have received vitamin A capsules within four months, and sick children should not receive A capsules.
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