All asked to administer children Vitamin A-Plus capsule to fight health hazards
Saturday, 6 June 2009
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Friday urged all including the parents to administer their children Vitamin A-Plus capsule to fight blindness and other health hazards caused by malnutrition, reports BSS.
Sheikh Hasina made the call while formally opening the National Vitamin A-Plus Campaign-2009 by administering Vitamin A capsules and de-worming tablets to a number of children at her official residence Jamuna in the city.
The countrywide campaign begins today (Saturday) with a view to administering Vitamin-A capsules to over 20 million children aged between one and five and de-worming tablets to 19 million children aged two to five years.
Addressing the nation over Bangladesh Television and Bangladesh Betar on the occasion, the PM urged the parents to take part in the government's Vitamin-A campaign on a regular basis that help the children become healthy, sound and talented human beings.
Sheikh Hasina said that the aim of her government was to build a modern and digital Bangladesh by 2021 which only could be achieved if the children grow healthy.
The PM also said a large number of children across the country suffer from different complex diseases, including night- blindness due to Vitamin-A deficiency.
Terming the children as future of the nation, Sheikh Hasina said her government wants to make them healthy and worthy citizens.
The PM expressed the confidence that if the children are given Vitamin-A capsules and de-worming tablets twice a year it would help establish a disease-free healthy society.
Referring to the Awami League rule from 1996 to 2001, Sheikh Hasina said her government turned Bangladesh into a polio-free nation by regularly providing polio vaccines to the children.
She regretted that during the governments after 2001 polio diseases were found in the country. She expressed her firm determination that the present government would again free the country from polio forever by taking effective steps.
Mentioning the constitutional obligation to reach the medicare facilities to the doorsteps of the commoners, Sheikh Hasina said the present government will reopen 18 thousand community clinics, which were shut down by the successive governments after 2001, to reduce maternal and child mortality rate.
Sheikh Hasina made the call while formally opening the National Vitamin A-Plus Campaign-2009 by administering Vitamin A capsules and de-worming tablets to a number of children at her official residence Jamuna in the city.
The countrywide campaign begins today (Saturday) with a view to administering Vitamin-A capsules to over 20 million children aged between one and five and de-worming tablets to 19 million children aged two to five years.
Addressing the nation over Bangladesh Television and Bangladesh Betar on the occasion, the PM urged the parents to take part in the government's Vitamin-A campaign on a regular basis that help the children become healthy, sound and talented human beings.
Sheikh Hasina said that the aim of her government was to build a modern and digital Bangladesh by 2021 which only could be achieved if the children grow healthy.
The PM also said a large number of children across the country suffer from different complex diseases, including night- blindness due to Vitamin-A deficiency.
Terming the children as future of the nation, Sheikh Hasina said her government wants to make them healthy and worthy citizens.
The PM expressed the confidence that if the children are given Vitamin-A capsules and de-worming tablets twice a year it would help establish a disease-free healthy society.
Referring to the Awami League rule from 1996 to 2001, Sheikh Hasina said her government turned Bangladesh into a polio-free nation by regularly providing polio vaccines to the children.
She regretted that during the governments after 2001 polio diseases were found in the country. She expressed her firm determination that the present government would again free the country from polio forever by taking effective steps.
Mentioning the constitutional obligation to reach the medicare facilities to the doorsteps of the commoners, Sheikh Hasina said the present government will reopen 18 thousand community clinics, which were shut down by the successive governments after 2001, to reduce maternal and child mortality rate.