KHULNA, June 22, 2019 (BSS) – The first round of Vitamin A Plus campaign was observed here today as part of the nationwide programme.
Mayor of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Talukder Abdul Khaleque inaugurated the campaign in the city’s Amira Banu Begum Maternity Ward area as the chief guest through administering Vitamin A Plus capsule to a child.
Under the programme, all children will be administered Vitamin A Plus capsules, he added.
Chaired by KCC Councilor Abul Kalam Azad, the programme was addressed, among others, by Civil Surgeon Dr A S M Abdur Razzak, Councilors Md Moniruzzaman, Munsi Abdul Wadud and Arif Hossain Mithu, Women councilors Konoka Saha, Mazeda Khatun and Lutfunnecha Lutfa, assistant secretary of Health Ministry Rafiqul Islam, deputy director of Khulna Health Department Dr Sayed Zahangir Hossain and deputy director of family planning division Abdul Alim.