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Another child dies in Dhamrai

Pesticides poisoning blamed

Staff Correspondent
A seven-year-old girl Shibli Akhter died at Naogakait village in Dhamrai upazila yesterday allegedly due to poisoning from overuse of pesticides.
With the death of Shibli, a total of four children lost their lives while 13 others fell sick in Naogakait and Malancha villages in last 45 days.
All the children who survived from the same sickness were treated with injection of poison contamination.
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the government committee formed by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) under the health ministry said all the children died due to poison and it could happen because of overuse of pesticide and lack of consciousness among users.
The lEDCR's primary investigation found quite a few examples of overuse of pesticides.
Report received from Dhamrai says, Shibli had her breakfast yesterday morning and went out for playing and came back with the sickness. Doctors later announced her dead when she was taken to the upazila health complex.
Upazila health complex sources said like other pesticide victims Shibli also had the same sudden onset of symp-toms-reduced consciousness, frothy discharge, respiratory distress, constricted pupils and convulsions.
Earlier, two other children died at Naogakait viUage and another in Malancha village in Dhamrai. It has been seen that the children were affected in the morning.
Earlier the Local Agricultural, when the Daily Star correspondent visited Dhamrai said the farmers in 'Malartchh arid -Nad^^kaith spray pesticides in amounts way more than what is safe.
Before expiry, the dogs and calves were bellowing, jerking heads and off feeding, the IEDCR report reads.
The IEDCR has launched an awareness campaign against pesticides in those two villages.
It cautioned the villagers against letting their children go to the crop fields and using clay to make toys or ovens.
The IEDCR team has collected many biological and environmental samples including those of blood, urine, stool, cough and breast milk from villagers.
The samples have been sent abroad for further tests but the final result is yet to be received.