About Us
"It was important to begin a health fund to provide appropriate response for the Bhopal survivors...the clinic really filled a major gap in providing the help that people needed."
-Barbara Dinham, Co-Founder of the Bhopal Medical Appeal
About Us
"It was important to begin a health fund to provide appropriate response for the Bhopal survivors...the clinic really filled a major gap in providing the help that people needed."
-Barbara Dinham, Co-Founder of the Bhopal Medical Appeal
Our first Bhopal Medical Appeal appeared in The Guardian and The Observer on the 10th anniversary of the disaster in December 1994 and received an overwhelmingly generous response from the British public.
The funds from that first appeal were sufficient to setup the Sambhavna clinic, a community health centre built to deliver free first-class medical care to survivors of the disaster. "Sambhavna" means "possibilities in compassion", a name designed to reflect the incredible compassion and courage displayed by the survivors and their fierce determination to care for one another in defiance of the injustice they had suffered.
Since 2009, we have also funded the Chingari Children's clinic, which provides care to disabled children born into gas-affected families. The centre now provide regular physical and speech therapy, as well as special education, to more than 250 children. "Chingari" means "spark".
What We Do
The Bhopal Medical Appeal supports two free healthcare clinics for survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster and ongoing water contamination - The Sambhavna Trust Clinic and the Chingari Rehabilitation Centre.
Our History
Having opened in 1994, the Bhopal Medical Appeal has been supporting Bhopal gas survivors for 30 years.
Contact Us
Everything you need to contact us by phone, email or post. You can also message us through the website.
