Saturday’s Vitamin A-Plus campaign postponed

Saturday’s Vitamin A-Plus campaign postponed

 

The government has postponed the National Vitamin A-Plus campaign scheduled for Saturday.

The Institute of Public Health Nutrition, on Thursday, said it put on hold the National Vitamin A-Plus campaign due to unavoidable reasons.

The new date for the campaign will be announced later, the institute wrote in a press release.

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The campaign was supposed to be held across the country on Saturday to provide Vitamin A-Plus capsules to all children aged from six to 59 months.

Children, aged between six and 11 months, are to be given blue-coloured high-powered Vitamin A capsules while those aged between 12 and 59 months, receive red-coloured ones during the campaign.

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