A child being given Vitamin A-plus capsule in Dhaka on Saturday, June 22, 2019 Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka TribuneParents must bring their children to centres maintaining the hygiene rules, Health Minister Zahid Maleque saysThe nationwide Vitamin A-plus Campaign will be held from October 4 to 17 for feeding Vitamin A-plus capsules to 2.20 crore children aged between six and 59 months. He said parents must bring their children to centres to be fed vitamin A capsules maintaining the hygiene rules. However, sick children will not be fed capsule,” said the minister. The number of children aged 6 to 11 months is about 27 lakh and the number of children aged 12 to 59 months is 1.93 lakh. The total number of capsule feeding centres is 120,000, the number of health workers is about 240,000 and the number of health service provider is about 40,000.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 01, 2020 11:37 UTC