K V Shetty, superintendent at the Union Carbide Corporation factory in Bhopal on the night of the gas leak in 1984, died last month aged 80. Shetty was one of 8 Indian officials accused of criminal […]
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Local authorities in Bhopal have intervened to prevent the sale of 3,000kg of water chestnuts harvested from a local pond used as a dumping ground for toxic waste after activist groups reported the issue, according to
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On September 16, the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered the State Government to provide free cancer treatment to gas survivors with cancer at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhopal. The order is
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In an interview this morning with the Times of India, Bhopal Survivor Groups reported that data gathered during the pandemic shows nearly 40% of those who have so far died from Covid-19 in the city were
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to update it’s rules surrounding ‘Risk Management Plans’ for hazardous chemical facilities, a change that may increase public awareness of unsafe or hazardous factories or chemical facilities in
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Survivor groups in Bhopal have voiced their opposition to the government’s plan to build a memorial to the victims of the gas tragedy in the grounds of the abandoned factory site, arguing a full assessment of
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Survivor Deaths Under-reported As the peak of the second wave of Covid infections in Bhopal begins to pass, we are still waiting to find out the true extent of the tragedy it has wrought on Bhopal’s
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We are deeply saddened to report that Rajkumar Keswani, an acclaimed journalist who issued warnings about irregularities at the Union Carbide factory for several years before the Bhopal gas disaster in 1984, died of post Covid-19
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India has been in the grip of a deadly second wave of Covid-19 since early April, with hospitals all over the country running short of beds and oxygen. Bhopal and the rest of Madhya Pradesh were
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We are delighted to announce that the Bhopal Medical Appeal have partnered with a team of academics from Leeds University’s Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Culture to explore the health impacts of the Bhopal disaster as
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On Tuesday, November 24th, four survivor organisations in Bhopal held a press conference to announce that the disproportionately high death rate of survivors in Bhopal from Covid-19 shows that survivors’ injuries from gas exposures were not
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Every week in Bhopal, Community Health Workers (CHW’s) from Sambhavna and teams of Community Health Volunteers (CHV’s) from local neighbourhoods screen local residents for Covid-19 symptoms, refer those who test positive for treatment, and carry out
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