Arsenic Alarm Grips Kolkata

July 2nd, 2012 by Steve

Prithvijit Mitra, TNN Jun 28, 2012, 01.30AM IST

KOLKATA: If you live in or around Prince Anwar Shah Road, Ghulam Mohammed Shah Road, Golf Green, Jadavpur or Tollygunge and drink water drawn from tube-wells, better go for an arsenic poisoning test. Hundreds of Kolkatans have started showing the first signs of the illness, but are going unscreened and therefore, without treatment. Traces of arsenic have been found in the urine samples of scores of multi-storey residents of the areas mentioned. Scores of others have reported for treatment at Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) clinics in recent weeks with arsenic-triggered lesions, but have been turned away, for the medics are not trained to identify arsenic poisoning.

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