“The doctor at the Catholic Church-sponsored clinic told me to go for further testing but I have no money for that for now,” she says as she immerses her hand in a metallic container, which has shiny substance. “That is mercury,” remarks John Okello, the chairman of the Lolgorian Farming Gold Association. He says more than 1,000 small-scale miners working in mining pits that dot the shanty town have no protective gear. “We risk it all here! You see most of them have lost weight, complain of weakness, headache and suffer tremor,” says Okello, adding that doctors at the local clinic and officials from human rights organisations told them the conditions are caused by mercury.
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