The minister said this at a press briefing at the Secretariat ahead of the Vitamin-A Plus campaign.
The campaign is scheduled to be held on June 22 across the country to feed Vitamin A-plus capsules to nearly 2.20crore children aged from six months to five years. “There’s no problem over the quality of Vitamin-A Plus capsules. Some of the capsules, made by prominent local companies, have been brought from abroad.”
The rate of children’s night-blindness in the country has come down below one percent and it will be brought to zero level, he said.
The Health Minister also said the rate of night blindness was 3.76 percent in 1974 when this campaign was launched.
Besides, additional 1.20 lakh permanent and 20,000 temporary mobile centres will remain open from 8:00am to 4:00pm, he said.
Children of remote areas will be fed capsules for three to five days more, the minister added.