Health Holocaust

Methyl Isocyanate gas is extremely toxic and dangerous to human health when inhaled or ingested. Exposure to high quantities can cause pulmonary lung edema, haemorrhages, bronchial pneumonia, and death. Long-term effects of exposure have been linked to failed pregnancies and birth defects, chronic lung and kidney conditions, and higher rates of cancers among the survivor population.

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Health Holocaust

Methyl Isocyanate gas is extremely toxic and dangerous to human health when inhaled or ingested. Exposure symptoms to small quantities include chest pain, coughing, asthma, and irritation of the eyes, nose and throat.

Exposure to higher quantities can cause pulmonary lung edema, haemorrhages, bronchial pneumonia, and death. Long-term effects of exposure have been linked to failed pregnancies and birth defects, chronic lung and kidney conditions, and higher rates of cancers among the survivor population.

Officially MIC is classified as about twice as lethal as cyanide...[beyond the eyes and lungs]...the liver is fairly badly affected, the spleen is very badly affected...and finally the kidney seems to be quite severely affected... [and this is something] that doesn't get better over time, it seems to get worse.

Dr Neil Anderson - Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind

Long Term Health Affects in Bhopal - Dr Neil Anderson

A Child Is Born

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.
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Affan’s Story

Affan is 6 years old and has dyskinetic cerebral palsy. His father is a survivor of the 1984 Union Carbide Bhopal gas disaster. When Affan was born, he suffered from fits and fevers, and by the […]
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Atif’s Story

Atif Shaikh is 10 years old and suffers from developmental delay, microcephaly, and seizure disorder. His father inhaled toxic gas during the 1984 Union Carbide Bhopal gas disaster. His mother, Saira, recalls how after Atif’s birth […]
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Mohammad Umar’s Story

Mohammad Umar is 2 and half years old and one of the youngest registered children at the Chingari Rehabilitation Centre. Mohammad was registered at 8 months, with his diagnosis confirmed as developmental delay. Attending the centre daily, Mohammad receives tailored support from staff at Chingari with a specialist patient treatment plan. Staff […]
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Mohammed’s Story

Mohammed recently turned two years old and has Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC), a rare congenital condition that is characterised by stiff joints and muscle weakness. Mohammed’s maternal grandmother lived through the 1984 Union Carbide Bhopal gas […]
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Sambhavna Study Says Gas Hit Ten Times More Prone to Cancer

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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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 medical studies in the United States.
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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 1000 population here than in the USA or Europe.
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Women’s Health

Worryingly, Sambhavna’s pathologist has found a high proportion of abnormal PAP smears among women survivors, increasing fears for a connection between cervical cancer and gas exposure.
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