Illustrative photo (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Nearly 448,000
children aging from 6-36 months will receive in a large dose from
November 30 to December 3, according to the .
Hoang Duc Hanh, Vice Director of the centre,
asked healthcare facilities of wards, districts, and towns to make a list of
children subjected to the programme, ensuring that no child is left behind.
The facilities are also requested to ensure
convenient delivery, with each post handling no more than 200 children per day.
Hanoi is striving to give vitamin A to 99.8
percent of its children from 6-36 months old, and over 95 percent of children
under five years old who are at high risk of , and mothers with
one-month-old babies.
Children from 0-6 months who are not breastfed
ill also receive vitamin A, along with those from 37-60 months at high risk of
lacking the vitamin.
In particular, children infected with
are also subjected to the programme as taking vitamin A will help
reduce the fatality rate of the disease by 50 percent. –VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
