The Hindu Business Line : Lead purifier steel filters for school children

NEARLY 40 families of poor school children, who have high level of lead in their blood, will be provided with stainless steel filters fitted with lead removal purifiers at a function at Kasturba Medical College (KMC), Mangalore, on Saturday.

Recently the KMC, in association with the National Referral Centre for Lead Poisoning in India (NRCLPI) and the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), had conducted a study to evaluate the blood lead level (BLL) in children below 12 years in Mangalore area.

Experts feel that lead in blood above permissible level will affect the health of children. Of the 106 children tested for BLL, more than 70 per cent had BLL above the permissible level. The Golden Jubilee Celebration Committee of the KMC, in association with Eureka Forbes (India) and Filtrex International Pte Ltd, Singapore, will supply 50 water filters to such families and some schools in the area.

Filtrex has developed chelaton technology to remove lead from drinking water. The departments of community medicine and biochemistry of the KMC will follow up the project by monitoring the health of these families.

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