Program to help lower birth defects
By Shan Juan | China Daily | Updated: 2009-06-19 07:44
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A child is injected with the Hepatitis B vaccine at Shaodong county centre for disease control, Hunan province in this file photo. Huang Wu |
About 12 million rural Chinese women of child-bearing age will receive free folic acid supplements from the government this year to help prevent birth defects in their future babies, according to a public health project announced by the Ministry of Health yesterday.
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