Tag: medical
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पीड़ितों संगठनों ने पीड़ितों के स्वास्थ्य के लिए बने एक अस्पताल को अखिल भारतीय आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान, भोपाल के साथ प्रस्तावित विलय की निंदा की
पत्रकार वार्ता अगस्त 22, 2024 आज एक पत्रकार वार्ता में, भोपाल में दिसम्बर 1984 के यूनियन कार्बाइड गैस हादसे के पीड़ितों के चार संगठनों के नेताओं ने पीड़ितों के स्वास्थ्य के लिए बने एक अस्पताल को अखिल भारतीय आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान, भोपाल के साथ प्रस्तावित विलय की निंदा की। संगठनों ने कहा कि उन्होंने स्वास्थ्य एवं…
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Survivor Organizations Condemn the Proposed Merger of BMHRC with AIIMS, Bhopal
Press Conference August 22, 2024 At a press conference today, leaders of four organizations of survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal condemned the proposed merger of a hospital meant for healthcare of survivors with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal.
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Sambhavna Trust Clinic Releases Report on Status of Health & Healthcare in Gas Exposed and Unexposed Populations
The Sambhavna Trust Clinic in Bhopal, on Saturday 1st December 2018 released an important and explosive report on the status of health and healthcare of the gas affected people in comparison to the unexposed population. The report is based on a study conducted between 2015 and 2017 by the trust, carried out in a sample…
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Govt of India follows Union Carbide’s suggestions instead of ICMR findings in giving compensation
Press Statement 23-July-2011 At a press conference today five organizations working for the victims of the December ‘84 Union Carbide disaster accused the central and state governments of downplaying the damage caused by the American company in the curative petitions filed in the Supreme Court. The organizations demanded that in place of Rs 3,000-6,000 crores…
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Letter to DAE from Bhopal Survivor Groups
To, Shri A.P. Joshi Chairman: Empowered Committee on BMHRC Additional Secretary Department of Atomic Energy Government of India Anushakti Bhawan, CSM Marg, Mumbai Fax: 022-22844628 18-February-2011 Sub: Case for effective administration of Bhopal Memorial Hospital Research Centre by the Department of Atomic Energy and rejection of proposal by the MP Government regarding setting…
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Ram Vilas Paswan declares support for Empowered Commission on Bhopal
Bhopal survivors’ organisations today presented the case of Sana, an 8-year old girl from the contaminated water affected Annu Nagar, to Rajya Sabha Member, Mr. Ram Vilas Paswan to highlight how the Group of Ministers’ recommendations last month do not address the unfolding health and economic disasters among victims of Carbide’s toxic legacy in Bhopal.…
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Medical
A chronicle of the continuing medical catastrophe in Bhopal with supporting medical papers and reports, documents, press cuttings, articles and research studies. ––The immediate effects of gas exposure and Union Carbide’s response. –– Survivors’ first clinic and sodium thiosulphate scandal. –– Damaged births in the aftermath of the gas leak. — Refusal of UCC and…
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A visit to the Sambhavna Trust Clinic in Bhopal, April 3rd to 7th 2007
BY DOCTOR BISWANATH GOUDA I never understood it when people used to say that it’s easier to make rational decisions when you are not part of the problem you are trying to understand. Not until April 2004. That summer, after graduating with a Masters in Public Health from Tulane I stumbled upon the AID website…
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Survivors present evidence of medical problems, efficacy of yoga and ayurveda, slam state healthcare system as incompetent, apathetic and corrupt
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal Ki Aawaaz February 27, 2007 PRESS STATEMENT At a Press Conference today a group of people suffering from different chronic ailments due to Union Carbide’s poisonous chemicals shared their experience of getting sustained relief…
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"Right to Live" dharna: parents of babies born malformed due to Carbide's poisons demand the children should receive free medical care
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal Ki Aaawaaz February 25, 2007 PRESS STATEMENT At a press conference in Bhopal today, parents of 14 children born with congenital abnormalities attributable to exposure to Union Carbide’s poisons demanded free medical care for…
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Private clinics mushroom in gas-hit Bhopal: Gas-hit areas in the Madhya Pradesh capital have seen a sharp rise in the number of private medical practitioners in the past two decades
IndiaPRwire, October 10, 2006 Gas-hit areas in the Madhya Pradesh capital have seen a sharp rise in the number of private medical practitioners in the past two decades. Over 3,000 people were killed when 40 tonnes of lethal MIC gas leaked out of Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in December 1984. To this day, residents exposed…
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Bhopal tragedy: Victim awaits compensation
RUBINA KHAN SHAPOO, NDTV, AUGUST 5, 2006 There are still about 20,000 people who were affected in the Bhopal gas tragedy but have neither got compensation nor medical aid. A PIL for relief for these victims is pending in the Supreme Court. An NGO has now moved another application for urgent medical aid for these…
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Madhya Pradesh allocates more funds for medicines, equipment and a new medical college
ADAPTED FROM CENTRAL CHRONICLE, BHOPAL, MAY 11, 220 Special efforts for modernisation of hospitals attached to five medical colleges of state. * 30.97% increase in medical education’s budget this year * Rs five crore provision for new medical college at Sagar * 70% increase in budget for purchase of medicines this year * Rs 57.50…
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A History of the Medical Disaster, Viewed Through Newspaper Clippings
News Clippings – 1984-1990: The Unfolding Medical Disaster New Clippings – 1991-1996: The Medical Crisis Continues News Clippings – 1997-2004: The Medical Crisis Continues List of Medical Headlines 1984-2004 Introduction This chronicle of the ongoing medical disaster in Bhopal is taken from newspaper clippings from local, national and some international newspapers, kept at the Sambhavna Trust…
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Indian politicians’ shameful treatment of survivors reaches new depths
INDIA’S POLITICIANS MOVE TO DENY BHOPAL SURVIVORS MEDICAL CARE The following press statement was issued today by Bhopal survivors’ organisations and their supporters. Bhopal, February 12, 2005 Over two hundred survivors of the December ’84 Union Carbide gas disaster today held a demonstration at the office of the Chief Medical Officer [Gas Relief] at 11.30…