Arsenicosis in drinking water is growing alarmingly and posing a health hazard to the people of Bangladesh while causing socio-economnic problems also. This was stated by the speakers at a seminar held at Comilla zila parishad auditorium recently. Fifty-nine out of the 64 districts in the country are now arsenic-affected. The public health engineering department (PHED) recently conducted a sample survey of 2,391 tubewells and found that 2,072 of them were contaminated by arsenic.
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