Flint Water Crisis: County Failed to Assist 85 Percent of Lead-Poisoned Children
[2024-02-23 00:29:52]
MLive reported on Friday that Genesee County Michigan, including Flint, was unable to help 85% of lead poisoned children during the water crisis
The data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act indicates that the Genesee County Health Department is not treating children with blood lead concentrations above 5 μg / dL, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to children aged 1 to 1 Health reactions are recommended.
The Michigan State Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has found that the county has failed to tie 173 children out of 204 children to treatment options initiated for health care
According to NPR, a water crisis began when the city converted water supply from Detroit's water supply and sewage treatment division into Flint River in April 2014. Residents immediately began to complain about the color and smell of new water sources. In August 2014, E. coli and coliform bacteria were detected in the water. In February 2015, the test showed that "Flint's house water has a very high lead". The senior officials reacted slowly, so the crisis worsened further. According to CNN, 12 people were killed when a veteran occurred, and over 80 people were sick.
In January 2016 President Obama announced Federal emergency in Flint and announced that it had addressed the health crisis and CNN approved 500 aid and designation to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). $ 10,000 aid
MDHHS spokesperson Geralyn Lasher announced in May 2016 that his contract to deal with children's lead poisoning by Gene Sea County was canceled.
"We do not have enough families to accept nurse management," she said, while other counties across the state have plans to deal with these responsibilities. "We do not have any other third party, and the health department outside the area is in charge of nursing case management to raise blood lead levels," she continued. "I do not know that no other health department has ever dealt with this problem before."
According to the Guardian, in April four years after the start of the water crisis, residents of Flint continued to drink and soaked in bottled water.
Lee Anne Walters says:
Last month, a judge in Michigan ordered the state health and social welfare director, Nick Lyon, to try the municipal water source by John Snyder and Robert Skydmore's two men to switch to "water source." Then he died of veterans' illness. 2014, Flint River, "CNN Report
Flint's crisis represents a tragic and unacceptable public health failure. But it does not equal New York City. In Flint, the lead poisoning of children suddenly increased due to lead contamination of the tap. It is safe to drink tap water in New York. Unlike Flint, the proportion of children with high lead concentration in blood continues to rise since 2014, and the proportion and number of children with high blood lead concentration in New York City are declining steadily - since 2005 %. In 2015, 5% of Flint's children showed positive with lead poisoning (> 5 mcg / dL), but in New York it was 7%.
Last year, children in Flint Michigan were exposed to lead in drinking water, some people became addicted and became the focus of the world. The following year, when Flint looked at the corrosive river water that leached lead from the old pipeline, 5% of the children were tested for high blood lead levels there. Toxic places on this map extend from Warren, Pennsylvania, to a small town on the Allegheny River. There, 36% of children test high level lead in Texas. There is a zip code on the province of Goth Island, and addiction is occurring in a quarter test. Lead poisoning has been in Baltimore, Cleveland, Philadelphia pockets for decades, tests have increased by 40% to 50% over the past decade.
There is no other way. Flint's water crisis is a terrible tragedy. Residents of Flint - especially colored people, children, babies, pregnant women - report symptoms of lead poisoning such as rash, hair loss, bone vulner