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, district health department will conduct the day long campaign on April 5 across the district.
This was stated in a press briefing held yesterday at local Civil Surgeon(CS) office attended by the journalists of both electronic and print media.Dr. Golam Faruq, Deputy Civil Surgeon in a multimedia presentation informed that on April 5 the children numbering 37,300 with the age range of 6 months to 11 months will be administered blue color vitamin A capsule (1 lakh IU) and 2,36,388 children with the age range of 12 months to 59 months will be administered red color vitamin A capsule (2 lakh IU).CS of Faridpur Dr. Sirajul Haque Talukdar disclosed that the campaign will be carried out 2,100 regular vaccination centers of 79 unions of nine upazillas and four Pourashavas of the district.The CS further informed that 6,300 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.The CS said that the preparatory works of the campaign are now completed and sought the cooperation of all including the journalists or successful conduct of the vitamin A plus campaign which will benefit the huge children from impending danger of various diseases particularly night blindness. -BSS, Faridpur
