Nearly 5 lakh children to get Vitamin A Plus capsules in Bogura

Around 5.6 lakh children of the district aged between six to
59 months will be fed vitamin ‘A’ Plus capsule under the National Vitamin A Plus Campaign on
March 15.

Vitamin A capsules will be fed in 2,867 centers of the district, said civil surgeon Dr. AKM
Mofakharul Islam.

The campaign will be conducted under the auspices of the Public Health and Nutrition Institute
and National Nutrition Services under the Ministry of Health and Family Planning with the
assistance of UNICEF.

Through the Vitamin ‘A’ Plus campaign, children aged 6 to 11 months will be given blue colored
Vitamin ‘A’ capsules and children aged 12 to 59 months will be given one red colored Vitamin
‘A’ capsule.

In the district, 60,970 children aged 6 to 11 months will be given blue colored Vitamin ‘A’ Plus
capsules and 4,45,398 children aged 12 to 59 months will be given red colored Vitamin ‘A’ Plus
capsules.

The civil surgeon specially called upon the parents to bring their kids to the outreach centres with
a full stomach to feed them Vitamin A capsule as immunization with an empty stomach might
cause nausea. (BSS)