Lead Poisoning: NGO Says Over 150 Children Victims Undergoing Treatment In Zamfara - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
April 1, 2019
A Non-Governmental Organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières, Doctors without borders says no fewer than 150 children affected with lead poisoning in Zamfara State are still undergoing treatment.
The organisation’s Deputy Head of Mission in Nigeria, Simba Timira said this in Abuja.
In 2010, an unprecedented outbreak of lead poisoning was discovered in the state, in which no fewer than 400 children died, eight years since the outbreak of the lead poisoning.
According to Tirima, organisation is funding the treatment of the affected children while the Federal and state governments are collaborating to ensure more children are not exposed to lead poison in all the affected villages.
The organisation’s boss said that, however, insecurity in the state had recently deprived the organisation from administering adequate treatment to the affected children.