The Vietnam War ended more than 40 years ago, but the legacy of a toxic herbicide dropped by US forces during the Vietnam War has been going one.
Dateline’s reporter Ade Adepitan is well known figures. He is a British television presenter and wheelchair basketball player and a constant campaigner against racism and disability discrimination.
Ade Adepitan goes to the city that used to be called Saigon - renamed Ho Chi Minh City. He visits Peace Village in Tu Du Maternity Hospital where Dr Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong is looking after children born with deformities.
Dr Phuong believes that those children here are affected by the Agent Orange. The Agent Orange used during the war contained a dangerous chemical called dioxin that can lead to genetic mutations.
The Vietnam War was ended years ago but how come the recent children are affected by the Agent Orange?
Dr Phuong says “One thing is that the dioxin can be transmitted from mother to the babies.”
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