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02-22-2007, 02:20 PM
About 55,000 children between the ages of 2 and 10 will receive treatment for parasites and will be given vitamins through a joint program run by the Public Health Ministry and funded by BRA Dominicana (Batey Relief Alliance). The program has a RD$9 million budget and will be mainly focused in the provinces of Santo Domingo, Monte Plata and La Romana. The program is aimed at reducing the risk and severity of anemia, mental retardation, infection, goiter, blindness and malnutrition. The program also seeks to improve children's health. The Minister of Health, Bautista Rojas Gomez, nutrition sub-minister Matilde Vasquez and BRA's executive sub-director Maria Virtudes Berroa signed the agreement, which will last three years. The program will treat children for parasites twice yearly.
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