Hong Kong’s China News Agency reported that as of Oct. 5, medical facilities in Hebei Province had conducted medical tests on 1,683,550 infants who consumed melamine-tainted milk formula.
15,838 were confirmed to have kidney stones, 1,862 were hospitalized and 1,575 were said to have recovered after seeking medical treatment.
The above information contradict a report that came from China’s Ministry of Health on Sept. 17, which said that just over 6,000 Chinese children developed kidney stones.
The head of the Ministry of Health, Chen Zhu, said during an interview on Sept. 28 that the number of children sickened from Sanlu tainted baby formula has greatly decreased.
Tainted Milk Products Sicken Tibetan Children
A doctor in Tibet Autonomous Region said that as of Oct. 3, over 100 cases of kidney stones in children had been reported, mostly in areas where urban and rural areas overlap.
A dozen children in a kindergarten in Lhasa were reported to have been sickened, according to Radio Free Asia on Oct. 4.
One four-year-old boy in a Lhasa kindergarten was confirmed to have developed kidney stones last week and has since been treated in the No. 2 People’s Hospital.
The boy’s father told a reporter that about a dozen children in his son’s kindergarten had developed kidney stones, and that his son had developed kidney stones about 0.8 mm in diameter, allegedy from consuming Nestle and Yili milk products for over a year.
