Health Minister Zahid Maleque announced the date and targets for the Vitamin A Plus campaign at a press conference on Thursday. The Vitamin A Plus campaign, which is conducted twice a year in Bangladesh, had been scheduled for Jan 19, but the Institute of Public Health Nutrition halted it citing ‘unavoidable’ reasons. The health minister said on Thursday that the government was investigating the postponement of the campaign. Supplementary nutrition in the form of a vitamin A capsule is vital for good infant and child health, growth, and development. Bangladesh has cut night blindness to 0.04 percent in recent years from 3.76 percent in 1982 through this campaign.

Source: bd News24 February 07, 2019 17:48 UTC