DHAKA, May 30, 2024 (BSS) - The National Vitamin A-plus campaign to be  conducted on June 1 with a target to feed vitamin A-plus capsules to over 2.22 crore children, aged between six months and 59 months, to prevent childhood blindness and reduce child mortality in the country.

“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,"  Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam told a press briefing here today.

The vitamin A plus campaign will be conducted later in cyclone-hit coastal regions, he said.