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Free vitamins offer for pregnant women and babies

Sheffield Council has announced its support for an initiative to provide free vitamin tablets to pregant women and babies in a bid to eradicate rickets and to give a healthy start to life. Rickets is a preventable disease yet one which is also on the rise. It is caused by vitamin D deficiency resulting from a lack of exposure to sunlight. The council is now backing the healthy start campaign to reduce the prevalence of rickets. Sheffield Live reporter Azz Mohammed spoke to Greg Fell, director of public health at Sheffield City Council.