According to a press statement from the Health Ministry, the nationwide Vitamin A Plus campaign will take place nationwide on March 15 to guarantee the health of every child.
The goal of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is to eradicate malnutrition and guarantee the health of every child in the nation.
In order to do this, on March 15, 1,20,000 permanent EPI facilities nationwide would administer vitamin “A” capsules to about 2.26 crore children between the ages of 6 and 59 months.
In order to give vitamin A capsules to children between the ages of six months and five years, the ministry has asked all parents and guardians to bring their kids to the closest EPI immunization center, community clinic, or other medical facilities.
The message said that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is working tirelessly to bring healthcare to the doorsteps of the people.
As a result, the rate of malnutrition in Bangladesh has decreased and child and maternal mortality has decreased significantly. Bangladesh has been participating as an important member of the world leadership nutrition forum Scaling Up Nutrition.
According to the notification, 4.10 percent of children suffered from night blindness as a result of hunger following the country’s independence. Children began receiving vitamin ‘A’ pills in 1974 as part of the night blindness prevention program.
The amount of youngsters who suffer from night blindness as a result of vitamin ‘A’ deficiency is virtually nonexistent now that the ‘A’ vitamin is still being fed.
Vitamin ‘A’ also lowers the death rate of children under five by around 25%, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s message.
All of our children cannot properly consume breast milk or foods rich in vitamin A in the right amount. As a result, a large number of children under the age of 5 suffer from vitamin deficiency and are affected by various diseases due to its deficiency.
To meet this deficiency at low cost and in a short time, it is necessary to feed children vitamin ‘A’ capsules.
Already, by feeding vitamin A to 98 percent of children twice a year through the National Vitamin A Plus Campaign, the rate of blindness due to vitamin A deficiency has reduced to less than 1 percent and the child mortality rate has also decreased.
To maintain this success, the National Vitamin A Plus Campaign should continue to feed vitamin A capsules to children aged between 6 and 59 months.
The Ministry of Health also said that children are our future. But a part of them are suffering from malnutrition. Blindness is a curse for a family.
By taking vitamin A capsules twice a year, children can be largely freed from the curse of blindness and the risk of child death can also be reduced by increasing the child’s immunity.
