August 7, 2:00 pm, living in Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province, Changqing Town, Ma Daokou Village, Group 7 of the mother-in-law sitting at the door of the cloth shoes, she suddenly found that the road across the street from the Ma Daokou school was even traffic, children, parents, wearing white coats, ...... people more and more people, has long been on vacation in the school suddenly became extremely lively.
An inquiry, only to know: the original is the Xi'an Municipal Central Hospital eight medical personnel here on the children under 14 years old and infants and young children to collect blood samples, focusing on the detection of which the lead content. According to the previous village and neighboring villages --- Sunjia Nantou village villagers volunteered to Baoji City, major hospitals for testing, the two villages hundreds of infants and children were detected in the body of the vast majority of lead exceeded the standard, some of which exceeded the standard seriously, has reached the standard of poisoning. Two villagers living in the north and south of the village surrounded by an annual output of 200,000 tons of lead and zinc smelting enterprises --- East Ridge Group Shaanxi Dongling Smelting Company Limited, is suspected of being related to this. Lead poisoning from the villagers accidentally found
The first to find out the abnormal lead content is the 9 group of Madaguchi Village, 6-year-old girl Miao Fan. In March of this year, because Miao Fan always cried out for stomach pain, and performance of the phenomenon of irritability, parents were brought to Fengxiang County Hospital for examination, the result was actually "lead poisoning gastritis".
This matter did not attract the attention of the villagers, until July 6, Sun Jia Nantou Village, group 1 villagers Xue Yani with his 8-year-old son Sun Jintao and his cousin, 6-year-old Sun Jin Yang, went to a trip to Baoji Maternal and Child Health Hospital. "My son is short and thin, like a 4-year-old, and weighs less than 50 pounds. I was trying to find out what he was missing." Xue Yani said, her son's cousin is not normal hair, there is a small spot, so also followed to check. The micronutrient test results surprised the doctor: the brothers' blood lead levels reached 239 micrograms per liter and 242 micrograms per liter, respectively, greatly exceeding the normal value of 0-100 micrograms.
The doctor told Yani Xue that blood lead levels below 100 micrograms per liter are relatively safe; between 100 and 199 micrograms, hemoglobin metabolism is affected, and nerve conduction speed decreases; between 200 and 499 micrograms, symptoms such as low immunity, learning difficulties, lack of concentration, reduced IQ levels or physical growth retardation and other symptoms.
Villagers besiege the smelting company's gate
Listening to the doctor, Xue Yani immediately felt the seriousness of the problem: near her home is the Dongling Group's lead-zinc smelting company, which has been affected by the impact of 2006, the water, the air has some odor, the child's blood lead level is abnormal, and it is estimated that there is a relationship between the enterprise. The results of the examination quickly spread in the two villages. Some villagers brought their children to Baoji Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Baoji Central Hospital, Baoji People's Hospital and other physical examination, the results of the physical examination of the villagers were shocked: almost all the children's lead content exceeded the standard. 3 to 4 August, unusually agitated villagers besieged the East Ridge Group smelting company's gate, resulting in the company can not be normal production, the two sides clashed. After the incident, Fengxiang county party committee, the county government leaders rushed to the scene, the organization of personnel statistics "blood lead exceeded the standard" the number of children, the environmental protection department also intervened in the investigation. Villagers: at least 300 children's blood lead exceeded
According to the villagers incomplete statistics, Sunjia Nantou Village and Madaguchi Village, 0-14 years old infants and children's blood lead anomalies in the number of more than 160, the two villages together, at least 300 children's blood lead exceeded the standard. Starting from August 7, according to the assignment of the Department of Health of Shaanxi Province, the medical staff of Xi'an Central Hospital***needed to collect blood samples from 864 children. 300 blood samples were collected on August 7, the same day. Due to the need to test too many children, Shaanxi Province, it is difficult to raise enough testing reagents, Xi'an City Central Hospital is urgently transferred from Beijing, it is expected that the next collection of work will be carried out around next Tuesday, the next week to complete the collection of blood samples from all 864 children. The results will be announced within three to four days after all the blood samples are collected.
The government promises free treatment
After the blood lead anomaly incident, Fengxiang county party committee and county government held two enlarged meetings of the Standing Committee to study and deploy the disposal of the incident of excessive blood lead. The meeting put forward five principles of disposal: 1. relying on the authority of the provincial and municipal CDC verification confirmation; 2. government-funded free of charge comprehensive verification of the children's blood lead exceeded the standard; 3. open and fair, the first time to publish the results of the examination; 4. people-oriented, once confirmed that there are children with blood lead exceeded the standard, free of charge to all be timely and effective treatment to ensure that an early cure without sequelae; 5. focus on the long term, to develop a plan to do a good job of relocation. Planning and relocation work.
In fact, as early as last year, some villagers in the two villages were aware of the possible hazards of lead and zinc smelting. Mrs. Du, across the street from Madokou School, was one of them. At her request, her 14-year-old grandson, Ma Fan, was sent to study at her son's part-time job in Yinchuan, Ningxia, last fall, and this time he was not tested for abnormal blood lead. Home in the smelting company's gate Wang Hong also sent his 12-year-old child Wang Jiaxin to Fafeng County, a private elementary school in Famensi Chenguang Primary School, away from the pollution. Wang Hong estimates that more children will be transferred out of state this fall.
Smelting company workers with excessive blood lead levels are even more terrifying
Ma Yungang, a 23-year-old young man from Group 7 of Ma Daokou village, is a household name in the area, and it is known that he works for a smelting company and has a blood lead level of more than 1,000 (micrograms per liter). Ma Yungang 50-year-old father Ma Zhaocai yesterday confirmed to reporters: his son was found in May this year, blood lead content of more than 1100 (μg / liter), by the company for infusion lead, has declined. He also confirmed that his son has submitted a resignation report to the company last month, "is not yet approved". Some other employees working in the smelting company also confirmed that their blood lead levels were above normal, above 400 (μg/l), and not less than 600, 700 and 800. The workers said that the residents outside also have blood lead levels exceeding the standard because of insufficient safety distance.
Slow relocation or the main reason for exceeding the standard
According to the local media in Shaanxi, according to the agreement of the Dongling Smelting Company to move into the Changqing Industrial Park,*** there are 581 villagers living around the company need to be relocated. But in the two years that the smelting company has been in the area, only 156 households have actually been relocated in the Evergreen Industrial Park, and 425 households have not been relocated.
Pu Yiming, deputy director of the management committee of the Evergreen Industrial Park, said that in the future, the park will raise 20 million yuan a year to relocate about 100 households a year. Preparations for the first batch of relocated households will be completed by the end of this month, said a source from the housing relocation team of the Fengxiang County Blood Lead Excess Incident Leadership Group.
The Environmental Monitoring Bureau of the Shaanxi Provincial Environmental Protection Department has formed an environmental protection inspection team, which has already penetrated into smelting enterprises and nearby villages and groups, and set up 12 points to test the atmosphere, soil, water sources and enterprise outfalls, etc., and the results of the inspection will be available in a few days.
Environmental monitoring points increased to 12
Baoji City Environmental Protection Monitoring Station has been stationed in Dongling Smelting Company on the 6th, the day of the extraction of the company's peripheral groundwater, surface water, soil samples. Yesterday and increased monitoring points, including along the highway, now the monitoring points have increased to 12. According to the monitoring results of the 12 monitoring points, the environmental protection department will determine the source of pollution according to law, so that "the public can rest assured that the enterprises understand".