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Confusing vitamin A with polio doses

30 October 2003, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Prof Mamunar Rashid PhD (Cambridge, UK); DPH (DU); MBBS (DMC); MS (Columbia, NY) Professor of Nutrit
30 October 2003, 18:00 PM
Photo: STAR
If you look back on the last page of your daily dated 23rd of October, 2003 you will find a big photograph of a child receiving a capsule. The caption reads that the government launched the second round of a polio vaccine programme.

It is surprising to note that the press remains oblivious to many intricacies and subtleties involved in government actions. In reality, the government launched a new campaign to give vitamin A capsules along with de-worming tablets, thus naming it Vitamin A plus campaign. This has got nothing to do with the polio.

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