Kathmandu. On October 17th and 18th, preparations are being made to give vitamin A to 2.1 million children in all regions.
Vitamin A program, which the government has been regularly feeding on 2nd and 3rd of November for the financial year 2083/084, has been prepared for it on 17th and 18th of October.
Lilavikram Thapa, head of the nutrition branch of the health service department, informed that vitamin ‘A’ capsules will be given to children aged six months to 59 months and deworming medicine to children aged one to five years.
Vitamin ‘A’ will be given to about 2.1 lakh children and anti-worm medicine to about 2.0 lakh children. Vitamin A has been sent to all provincial health supply centers.
In order to reduce the risk of health complications and malnutrition in children, the government has started feeding vitamin ‘A’ capsules regularly since 2050 and leprosy medicine since 2056.
He said that 52,000 female health volunteers and 10,000 health workers will be deployed for the National Vitamin A program.