How NTU is helping schools in Nepal to battle arsenic contamination

When Mr Ramprasad Yadap, who lives in rural Nepal, started developing skin lesions on his body some 17 years ago, he did not think much of the little pigmented spots.

But they were a tell-tale sign of arsenic poisoning - a condition which would become so severe that it turned his left foot gangrenous a few years later, leading to eventual amputation.