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Mombasa County medical authorities have announced that 11 out of 55 tested samples taken from residents of Owino Uhuru slums have showed abnormal levels of lead in their blood.
Yesterday, doctors at two special wards at Port Reitz Hospital treating exposure to lead from effluents of a now shut battery plant in the slums warned that all the 55 samples showed evidence of exposure to the metal in varying degrees.
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