Bangladesh government is set to observe the National Nutrition Week 2021 from April 23 to April 29 under the theme “Think Food, Think Nutrition’. The weeklong program was inaugurated by Honourable Health and Family Planning (MoHFW) Minister Zahid Maleque on April 22 at a virtual meeting. The main goal of National Nutrition Week 2021 is to increase public awareness about nutrition.

The nationwide Vitamin A Plus Campaign was held from October 4 to 17 for feeding Vitamin A plus capsules to 21.51 million children aged between 6 to 59 months. To contain the spread of Covid-19, the campaign was held at different centres on different dates. The dates for specific areas were announced locally with three-day’s advance. Workers involved in the campaign were given surgical masks and they had to follow at least 3ft of social/physical distance and health hygiene rules. Currently 4 days searching activities is going on in the hard to reach areas (242 unions under 46 upazilas) to provide vitamin A capsules to the missing children.

A two-week National Vitamin A Plus campaign has been held from October 4 to October 17 at 120,000 permanent centres in rural and urban areas across the country aiming to provide blue coloured vitamin A capsules to 2.53 million children aged between 6 to 11 months and red coloured high-power capsules to 19.5 million children aged between 12 to 59 months. Honourable Minister of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) Zahid Maleque, MP inaugurated the campaign at Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka.