February 8, 2019
By Ron Fonger
Flint -- A Hurley Medical Center doctor (click here) says she asked state health officials for the information they had on blood lead levels in Flint children in September 2015 but was never given an internal report that showed what she was trying to prove -- that those levels were spiking.
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician whose study on elevated blood lead levels helped end the city’s use of the Flint River as its water source, told Genesee District Judge Jennifer Manley Friday, Feb. 8, that the state Department of Health and Human Services turned over some information she requested but never shared a state epidemiologist’s report showing a correlation between river water and elevated lead.
“I would have loved to have seen this," Hanna-Attisha testified during preliminary examinations for Robert Scott and Nancy Peeler, two MDHHS officials charged with misconduct in office, conspiracy and willful neglect of duty for their alleged roles in the Flint water crisis....
