Vitamin A-plus campaign on June 18

The National Vitamin A-plus campaign will be conducted on June 18 with a target to feed over 20.20 million children aged six months to 59 months vitamin A-plus capsule to prevent childhood blindness and reduce child mortality in the country, reports BSS.

"Feeding Vitamin A capsules prevents blindness in children, ensures normal growth, reduces all types of child mortality by 24 percent and significantly reduces mortality from measles, diarrhoea and pneumonia," Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque told the inaugural function of the countrywide campaign in a city hotel, an official release said.

Under the campaign, children aged between six months and 11 months will be given vitamin A-plus capsule with blue colour while children aged between 12 and 59 months were administered vitamin A-plus with red colour on the day, according to the official release.

Maleque urged the people to feed their children vitamin A-plus capsule for ensuring that not a single child is left out of getting the vitamin capsules.

"We can cut 24 percent child mortality from the country through successful implementation of the programme," the minister said.