- Advertisement -With almost no education these poor individuals have no understanding of health and safety, and the requirements involved. To take one example, aluminum phosphide is a pesticide responsible for the often unreported deaths of thousands of persons in the Sub-continent alone, and further thousands of deaths worldwide. Given all these reasons, the use of aluminum phosphide is banned in several countries because of its high fatality rate. In a case study done in a hospital in Lahore, the mortality rate as a result of aluminum phosphide poisoning was 70 percent, and another study reported a rate of 55-90 percent. Do they count?

Source: Pakistan Today April 03, 2021 19:18 UTC