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Nigeria: the killing gold mines
In association with the Centre of prevention and control of the diseases (United States), the Nigerian authorities began to evacuate the region and to disinfect disaster areas. The Ministry of Health notified several international health care agencies as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and “Médecins Sans Frontières” (MSF).
Dr Akpan, of the Ministry of Health, added that the authorities deployed now sanitary councils to the population and informed them about “the dangers of the illegal mine exploitations “.
According to him, the children would have been poisoned by inhaling lead dusts by playing near the places where the villagers crushed rocks to extract the gold from it or participated themselves in the process of extraction.
An exposure at high lead levels can cause disorders of behaviour, reproductive or cognitive problems, nervous disorders, the high blood pressure, slow down the growth, cause intellectual damage and destruct the nervous system. In the most severe cases, the exposure can provoke the coma, even the death.
The last week, President Goodluck Jonathan, inaugurated a big processing factory in Zamfara, a province which has enormous deposits of ores, in particular gold and columbium.