Since I had narrowed down the focus of my project, I decided to go to the government dispensary to have a look at the IFA tablets they were distributing.
When we got there, I was asked to hand over a prescription from a doctor to avail of the free tabs. When I explained where I was from, they showed me the tablets, around the same size as a Cadbury Gems candy, half an inch in diameter, round and disc-like. They were a magenta-red colour. When asked for how it was packaged, she showed me a stack of crisp printed waste paper, in which they wrapped the medicine.
My observations:
- The pinkish colour of the tabs made it look like a sweet or candy.
- The nature of the packaging was hardly durable, once opened the tabs could easily be lost or fall out.
- Children about the house could easily misconstrue the tablets for candy, get a hold of them because of the inefficient packaging and consume them, and hence the risk for iron-poisoning in children is high.
- The paper was arbit waste paper that could instead be used to communicate.
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