With India in the grip of the second wave of the pandemic, cases in Bhopal have once again risen to over 500 per day in the last week, while the total death toll in the city surpassed 650. On Monday Hamidia Hospital, the government’s primary coronavirus treatment facility in the city, ran out of beds […]
On Saturday, March 6th, the Guardian published an opinion piece on coronavirus by former WHO Director of Maternal and Child Health, Anthony Costello. In it, Costello argues that the UK’s failure to adopt a community healthcare model against coronavirus akin to those used in Asian countries, including China and South Korea, is one of the […]
On Saturday, January 10th, the four major survivor organisations in Bhopal wrote a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modhi and the Health Department requesting the immediate end to a trial of the drug Covaxin at a Bhopal hospital, citing potential exploitation of gas survivors, one of whom died nine died after receiving the vaccine. […]
Last Wednesday, December 2nd, we held our first ever webinar to mark the 36th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster. The event featured talks from a range of experts covering different aspects of the disaster and its ongoing impact, as well as the current campaign to safeguard survivors from Covid-19. The full webinar is now […]
We have shared a lot of information this year about the Community Shield Campaign run by the Sambhavna clinic’s health team and their effort to protect survivors in Bhopal from the spread of Covid-19. But since the closure of the Chingari Children’s clinic back in March, their staff and drivers have also been working non-stop […]
