Dhaka, June 22 -- The national Vitamin A plus campaign is underway across the country on Saturday , aiming to feed Vitamin A-plus capsules to nearly 2.20 crore children aged from six months to 59 months.

Health Minister Zahid Malik inaugurated the programme at Dhaka Shishu Hospital at 8 am.

The children will be fed the capsule at 1.20 lakh permanent and 20,000 mobile centres which will remain open from 8:00am to 4:00 pm.

Children of remote areas will be fed capsules for three to five days more.

The Health Minister at a programme on Thursday said Vitamin A plus capsules have been tested several times in labs to avoid problems this time.

"There's no problem over the quality of Vitamin-A Plus capsules. Some of the capsules, made by prom...