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Lead poisoning, the silent killer of children's dreams

A universal lead screening for pre-school and school-aged children and a lead education programme for parents are recommended for implementation in Kenya.

I recently had a very chilling unusual conversation with a colleague who we were neighbours as young doctors living in the doctors flats.

He shared with me his current predicament of poor performance in school and behavioural challenges of his first two children.

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