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Slum residents tested for lead poisoning

Kenya: The Ministry of Health and the county government of Mombasa have begun carrying out tests on residents of two slums to determine possible contamination of heavy metal by effluent from a nearby lead factory.

Some residents of Uhuru Owino and Bangladesh slums in Mombasa have in the past complained that they have fallen ill, suspecting they were contaminated by effluent from the factory.

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