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Spontaneous Abortions & Horrific Births

By Bhopal Medical Appeal Office / October 16, 2014 / Comments Off on Spontaneous Abortions & Horrific Births

Long before Union Carbide’s toxic gas, methyl-isocyanate (MIC), claimed tens of thousands of lives in Bhopal, it was the subject of more than a dozen Union Carbide funded medical studies…

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System Failure

By Bhopal Medical Appeal Office / October 16, 2014 / Comments Off on System Failure

So many government hospitals have been built in Bhopal since the 1984 disaster, that, as the International Medical Commission on Bhopal (IMCB) has observed, there are more hospital beds per…

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Women’s Health

By Bhopal Medical Appeal Office / October 16, 2014 / Comments Off on Women’s Health

Given the official neglect towards monitoring and care of gynaecological complications caused by the disaster, special attention is given to this area by Sambhavna. While officials continue to deny any…

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Aziza

By Bhopal Medical Appeal Office / October 16, 2014 / Comments Off on Aziza

I was living with my husband’s family at that time. My daughter Ruby was three and my son Mohsin was about eight months old. That night my husband was away…

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Laccho

By Bhopal Medical Appeal Office / October 16, 2014 / Comments Off on Laccho

Laccho-bai sits in the door of her house, cradling a garment that belonged to her daughter. She’s speaking, but what she’s saying, no one can tell. She breaks into song,…

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Mehboob Bi

By Bhopal Medical Appeal Office / October 16, 2014 / Comments Off on Mehboob Bi

Photo taken by Raghu Rai I call her my adopted mother, she says I am her daughter and that I’ll be there for her whenever she needs me. I just…

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Saira

By Bhopal Medical Appeal Office / October 16, 2014 / Comments Off on Saira

Saira’s story seems unique in the depth and savagery of its misfortune. But in another way it is a miracle. How did an unwanted, unloved child, brought up in hunger,…

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Sunil

By Bhopal Medical Appeal Office / October 16, 2014 / Comments Off on Sunil

The life and death of a mad Bhopali child Sunil, for much of your short life, you believed that people were coming to murder you. ‘I guess I’m mad,’ you’d…

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The Eye

By Bhopal Medical Appeal Office / October 22, 2014 / Comments Off on The Eye

Shanu was twelve years old when she died. The cancer that consumed her eyeball had left her in perpetual agony. Tear tracks shone beneath the hideous monstrosity that was once…

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Second Poisoning

By Bhopal Medical Appeal Office / October 27, 2014 / Comments Off on Second Poisoning

As early as 1969, pesticides and other toxic wastes from the Union Carbide factory were being buried in the grounds around the site. Following the gas leak in 1984, the…

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