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Vitamin A and Deworming Supplementation Programme
This is one of the most important session for the parents with children from the age group of 1-5 years. We conducted this programme at all 30 of our Balwadis that involved a total of 850 beneficiaries. Vitamin A supplementation is extremely important to safeguard a child’s health in several ways. Upon receiving adequate amounts of Vitamin A while the child is between age of 6-59 months can considerably reduce chances of getting infected. Their risk of dying from diarrhoea is reduced by about 28%, while their overall risk of death is reduced by 12–24%.
It’s not just the child; pregnant woman also need Vitamin A supplementation to aid in the growth of her unborn child and they should also continue post delivery. It also helps in protection of the eyesight; as if one has shortage of Vitamin A in their body, night blindness can be one of the shortcomings. It also helps in prevention of anaemia. Albendazole (Deworming)Tablets kills the intestine worms which affect the child health; absorbing blood and food from the intestine.
To educate the parents of our beneficiaries on such importance of the supplementation; this session was held. They were made aware of its necessity, side effects, process of giving the dosage. The children were then administered the dosage following the correct protocol. A child health card was given for every child expected to get the dosage in order to record the supplementation, a pair of scissor each to open the capsule, alcohol based sanitizer to prevent infection, wipes/towels for each person distributing the dosage, a plastic bag/box to dispose the used capsules and tally sheets for each person supplying the Vitamin A.
Here’s what a parent had to say, ” I am very happy to say that our children are getting vitamin A and Deworming tablets in the Balwadis every 6 months and also getting proper information about all vaccinations.”- Vanita Sambhaji Patil, Parent of child in Balwadi no. 24.
Through such vaccination camps organization trying to cover health aspects of balwadi children, and thanks for supporting Vitamin Angel NGO for vitamin A and De-warming tablets…