DHAKA, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Over 38,000 people in Bangladesh were affected with arsenic-related diseases while water of 30 percent tube wells was contaminated with arsenic till 2006, said a government survey.
Officials, experts disclosed the figures quoting the government survey at a workshop held by the Arsenic Program of Health Department under the Heath Ministry here on Tuesday, private news agency UNB reported.
In Bangladesh, arsenic contamination of ground water was first detected in 1993 in northwestern Chapai Nawabganj district.
The number of arsenic patients stood at 38,412 in 2006, while it was only eight in 1995 and 60 in 1998, the survey said.
Water of some 1.44 million tube wells in 270 sub-districts of 62 out of the total 64 districts was contaminated with arsenic while 66 million tube wells were identified as vulnerable.
The workshop was informed that the government has undertaken different arsenic mitigation programs. Medicines have already been sent to different district and sub-district health complexes.
The government has initiated to carry out rehabilitation programs for the arsenicosis patients.
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