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Hoang Duc Hanh, Vice Director of the centre, asked healthcare facilities of wards, districts, and towns to make a list of children subjected to the programme, ensuring that no child is left behind.

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The facilities are also requested to ensure convenient delivery, with each post handling no more than 200 children per day.

Hanoi is striving to give vitamin A to 99.8 percent of its children from 6-36 months old, and over 95 percent of children under five years old who are at high risk of lacking vitamin A, and mothers with one-month-old babies.

Children from 0-6 months who are not breastfed ill also receive vitamin A, along with those from 37-60 months at high risk of lacking the vitamin.

In particular, children infected with measles are also subjected to the programme as taking vitamin A will help reduce the fatality rate of the disease by 50 percent.

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Source: VNA