UNICEF targets 1.1m children for Vitamin A supplements in Anambra

UNICEF targets 1.1m children for Vitamin A supplements in Anambra

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) said over 1.1 million children in Anambra State would benefit from its Vitamin A supplements during the first round of its optimised Maternal, Newborn Child Health (oMNCH) week.

The nutrition specialist at the UNICEF Enugu Office, Ngozi Onuorah, gave the figure at the opening of the campaign for material and child health programme at Umueri, Anambra East local Government Area.

The programme is organised by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), in collaboration with the State’s PHCDA, Ministry of Health, and support from UNICEF, World Health Organisation (WHO) and other partners.

According to Onuorah, the campaign would bring primary health care interventions to the doorsteps of mothers and their children. She, however, lamented Iron deficiency, anaemia in children in Anambra State, adding that of 334,838 expectant mothers, 170,148 (51 per cent), are anaemic.

 

By Emma Elekwa | The Nation

https://thenationonlineng.net/1-1m-children-for-vitamin-a-supplements-in-anambra/

 

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