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Govt administering vitamin 'A' to children today and tomorrow

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A community health volunteer administering Vitamin A and deworming capsules to a child at Manamaiju in Tarkeshwar Municipality-10 in Kathmandu on Thursday.

The government is administering vitamin 'A' and deworming medicine to children today and tomorrow.

The government has been conducting this program in two phases every year.

This program has been conducted in Nepal every year on October 19 and 20 and April 19 and 20. However, this year, as Tihar fell on October 19 and 20, the program had been postponed by the Ministry of Health and Population.

Dr. Bibek Kumar Lal, Director at the Family Welfare Division under the Department of Health Services, informed that the target is to administer vitamin 'A' to about 2.8 million children under the age of five and deworming medicine to about 3 million children in 753 local levels of the country today and tomorrow.

As many as 52,000 health volunteers and 15,000 health workers have been mobilized for this campaign.

Children aged six to 11 months are administered only vitamin 'A' capsules and children aged 12 to 59 months are given vitamin 'A' capsules along with deworming medicine.

According to the division, about 90 percent of the children took vitamin 'A' capsules and about 87 percent took deworming medicine in the previous phase.

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