Description : Most of the hand pumps in Muslim Sheikh?s village of Syedpur in Pubna district is arsenic contaminated and he had severe KERATOSIS OF PALMS. Hard corn like spots on the palms and soles of the feet caused by drinking arsenic contaminated water as well as skin lesions on his chest. When a team of doctor from Dhaka Community Hospital, specialized in arsenic cases, visited his village, they advised him to get treatment at their hospital. He spent three months in the hospital, but as he must work to support his family, he could not continue and now he is back to his village and as there are no arsenic free hand pump in his village, he is back to drinking same arsenic contaminated water, Village: Syedpur. District, Pubna, Bangladesh.