{"id":265754,"date":"2024-06-02T10:54:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T02:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=265754"},"modified":"2024-06-02T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T03:08:27","slug":"bangladesh-distributes-vitamin-a-plus-capsules-to-around-22-million-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=265754","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Distributes Vitamin A-Plus Capsules To Around 22 Million Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DHAKA, Jun 2 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; Bangladesh, yesterday, launched a countrywide campaign to distribute Vitamin A-plus capsules to around 22 million children between six months and five years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 240,000 volunteers and 40,000 health workers have been deployed to 120,000 permanent and makeshift centres across the country for the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parents were seen taking their kids to the centres in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country, since yesterday morning, to get the Vitamin A-plus capsules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director General of Directorate General of Health Services, Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, said earlier that, such a campaign contributed to the government&#8217;s efforts in reducing night blindness and the risk of child deaths from diseases, such as measles and diarrhoea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bangladesh conducts the campaign twice a year.&#8211; NNN-BSS &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, Jun 2 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; Bangladesh, yesterday, launched a countrywide campaign to distribute Vitamin A-plus capsules to around 22 million children between six months and five years old. A total of 240,000 volunteers and 40,000 health workers have been deployed to 120,000 permanent and makeshift centres across the country for the campaign. Parents were seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":265762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265754"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265760,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265754\/revisions\/265760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}