Vitamin A plus campaign on Dec 10 Faridpur

Faridpur district health department will conduct the day long campaign on December 10 across the district.

As part of the countrywide vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign with the object of reducing the night blindness and growing resistance power in the children against diseases due to malnutrition, they will conduct it.

In this connection an orientation meeting was held on Monday at local circuit house.

It was learnt officially from district health department that the children numbering 41020 with the age range of 6 months to 11 months will be administered blue color vitamin A capsule(1 lakh IU) and 258168 children with the age range of 12 months to 59 months will be administered red color vitamin A capsule(2 lakh IU).

It was further learnt that feeding of Vit-A will not bring any side effects or any after effects to the administered children. However, there may be some sort of vomiting tendency among some which is nothing serious or a matter of worry.

Official sources said that the campaign will be carried out 2100 regular vaccination centers of 79 unions of nine upazillas and four pourashavas of the district.

6300 field level workers of health department and family planning department along with the volunteers will be deployed at the centers to make the campaign successful.

All preparatory works of the campaign are now completed, Sources said.

Source: BSS