But they don't know what to do. After the DPHE survey, the local administration took steps to warn the people about the effects of arsenic contamination of groundwater. Consequently, most of the people are giving up the habit of using tubewell water. The Unicef and the DPHE, through use of 'field test kits' have helped the villagers identify sources of safe tubewell water. But the real problem is the communication gap.
People are in confusion what to do.
Even officials in Thana Health Complexes are unable to give proper advice. A dependable headway has been made in solving the problem of arsenic contamination of ground water affecting almost a large part of our population. Funded wholly by the British Department for International Development, this 800,000-dollar project comes in the nick of time to plug a big hole in Bangladesh's efforts to fight the arsenic threat to both life and society. Without identifying the physical agents and processes of the contamination, any action programme to minimise the danger must be founded on quagmire. This is not to say that the great work put in by the Dhaka Community Hospital in identifying the affected patients in the districts and offering them mitigation of pain and suffering is in any way less important.