Mohammad is 7 years old and has cerebral palsy. His paternal grandparents were affected by methyl isocyanate gas during the 1984 Union carbide disaster. Mohammad has been attending the Chingari children’s clinic since 2019, when he […]
Fatima is 2 years old and has dyskinetic cerebral palsy, a condition which causes weakness and involuntary movements in the muscles. Her grandfather is a survivor of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, and her father Mashkoor
On the twentieth anniversary of the Sambhavna Clinic, a preliminary report from a ground-breaking study has revealed that cancer incidence, in people exposed to the methyl isocynate (MIC) gas leak of 1984, is ten times greater than in the unexposed population.
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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…
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…
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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In a sample of 865 women who lived within a kilometre of the plant and who were pregnant at the time of the gas leak, 43% of the pregnancies did not result in live births.
