Banned pesticide Endosulfan causes havoc in Kerala.

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Endosulfan victims: Kerala to meet medical expenses Special Correspondent One `model hospital' in each Assembly constituency planned http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/26/stories/2006052602660700.htm EXCERPT: THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Government will meet the entire medical expenses of all the victims of Endosulfan poisoning in Kasaragod district, Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy said here on Thursday. She said nearly 200 people in the village of Padre in Kasaragod district were afflicted with neurological disorders, congenital

malformations, severe allergies, reproductive disorders, cancers and mental retardation. The afflicted people lived in the neighbourhood of the cashew plantations of the State public sector Kerala Cashew Development Corporation, where aerial spraying of Endosulfan was going on for over a decade to control pests. The corporation stopped the use of Endosulfan in the area in 2001 when media reports linked the maladies to the pesticide. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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