Pure Earth Ghana, a non-governmental organization in collaboration with USAID and UNICEF focused on combating environmental pollution have organized a national dialogue on lead pollution and poisoning in Accra.
Not only Dhaka, six other districts -- Gazipur, Tangail, Mymensingh, Khulna, Bogra and Magura -- have also been identified as lead hotspots by the Directorate General of Health Services
More than 70 sites near the capital city have high to alarming levels of lead in the environment, which may cause intellectual disability in children, stillbirth, miscarriages and a rise in antisoci
