A chronicle of the medical disaster in newspapers:
2001
GAS VICTIMS STAGE DEMO AGAINST HOSPITAL STAFF from the Hindustan Times 10/7/01. Disaster survivors, mainly widows, held a demonstration in front of Bhopal Memorial Hospital to protest the lack of services for them. The problems they referred to included difficulty getting the card which entitles them to treatment at the hospital, poor quality of construction, and massive corruption.
BHOPAL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FAILED GAS VICTIMS from the Hindustan Times 14/9/01. A survivors group addressing a press conference after staging a demonstration to press for their demands said that Bhopal Memorial Hospital had provided services to patients other than gas victims, and often demanded advanced payment for treatment even though a Supreme Court verdict compelled the hospital to provide treatment to gas victims for free. Also, specialty treatments planned have not yet started.
BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY VICTIMS CONTINUE TO SUFFER IN SILENCE from the Times of India 27/11/01. On the 17th anniversary of the disaster none of the three super-specialty hospitals planned to be completed by 1995 were ready, resulting in the refusal of funds for the next phase of the rehabilitation program. 30,000 people have died from various disorders, and many are disabled otherwise and continue to suffer.
THE CONTINUING MEDICAL DISASTER IN BHOPAL from the Hindu 3/12/01. On the 17th anniversary of the disaster volunteers associated with different action groups including Greenpeace organized a protest demonstration near the Carbide plant urging Dow Chemical and the Indian government to stop the medical disaster in Bhopal. Activists were annoyed at the corruption in the government’s medical relief initiative.
FIRST KILLER GAS, NOW POISON WATER HAUNTS BHOPAL VICTIMS from the Times of India 4/12/01. Seventeen years after the gas disaster Greenpeace International has confirmed that water in the localities adjacent to the Union Carbide factory is still contaminated, due to hazardous waste both above and below the ground.
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