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Vitamin A plus campaign from August 5

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Published: 10:27, 3 August 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Vitamin A plus campaign from August 5

Secretariat Correspondent: Over 2.25 crore children, aged between six months and five years, will be fed Vitamin A plus capsules under a national campaign on August 5.

State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Jahid Malek came up with the announcement while talking to reporters at the secretariat on Thursday.

He said that Vitamin A increases the immunity of children and reduce the complications of diarrhoea and measles.

The children, aged between six and 11 months, will be given the blue-coloured high-powered Vitamin A capsules, while children, aged between 12 to 59 months, will receive the red-coloured ones.


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