Seven hundred children in eight Zamfara Communities have died of lead poisoning since it was discovered eleven years ago.
Medicines Sans Frontiers known as Doctors without borders in April 2010, discovered an outbreak of lead poisoning associated with artisanal gold mining in Bukkuyum and Anka Local Government Areas
More than four hundred young child deaths was recorded within the period of Six months of the discovery of the outbreak
For eleven years now, Zamfara State has been battling a public health emergency involving unprecedented levels of lead poisoning
Lead Poisoning is caused…
