18 born blind in arsenic-hit Bihar district

  • 31/03/2010

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

Alto gether 18 children were born blind in the arsenic affected blocks of Bhojpur district during the past three months, Bihar health minis- ter Nand Kishore Yadav confirmed on Wednesday. The cause of the blindness was not yet known, but health department officials were in touch with ophthal- mologists, he said. The arsenic affected dis- tricts in Bihar are Bhojpur, Buxar, Vaishali, Bhagalpur, Samastipur, Khagaria, Katihar, Saran, Munger, Darbhanga and Patna.