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Doctors Resign from Hospital for Bhopal Gas Victims

Bhopal: The 21st anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy was on Saturday 30 doctors of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Center resigned. .. ..The doctors wanted a pay hike. The hospital gets around // 1,000 victims visit for treatment daily. Run by a trust, the BMHRC was set up as a super specialty hospital in 2001. Apart from the survivors of the gas victims, it also treats private...

Bhopal Residents Relish Chicken despite Bird Flu Scare

Nothing, not even the bird flu scare deters the Bhopal residents from relishing their favorite chicken. With the reduction in the chicken prices, the people, specifically in the old quarters of the city //, are enjoying a royal feast of chicken. ....'No doubt, the sale of chickens has gone down drastically in the upmarket areas of the city, but in other areas, it has increased manifold,' said po...

State Govt To Provide Safe Drinking Water To Bhopal Gas Victims

The government of Madhya Pradesh announced on Saturday a scheme that would provide safe drinking water to the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy//. The announcement came a day after the Bollywood star Aamir Khan offered his support to the gas victims. ..Minister for Gas Relief Babulal Gaur told IANS that a Rs.17-crore (Rs.10.7 million) scheme has been prepared in the wake of reports that drinking...

Bhopal Archbishop’s Concern Over Maternal Mortality Rat

Expressing concern over the high maternal mortality rate in Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal Archbishop Pascal Topno has called upon self-help groups to help check the menace//. ....With 13,000 reported deaths every year during or post pregnancy, the maternal mortality rate of the state is one of the highest in the country. ....Addressing a women's meet at the missionary-run Asha Niketan Welfare Centre he...

Six More Bhopal Gas Tragedy Continues to Take Toll

Bhopal, June 6. Twenty years on and the Bhopal Gas Tragedy continues..to haunt the public of Bhopal. Today it was reported that there were..six more victims dead from the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy //. ....Doctors at a hospital that was set up here to treat the affected..people are being accused of negligence. ....'More than six people have died in the past two months due to the..sheer negligence...

500 People Affected by Gas Leak Near Bhopal

Nearly 500 people complained of burning eyes and nausea in Madhya Pradesh Sunday after allegedly inhaling toxic gas, the source of which remains unknown//. ...."Around 200 people in Kirat Nagar, Mendua and Nayapara Tola villages complained of vomiting and burning sensation in their eyes perhaps after inhaling gas that emanated from an unidentified source," district collector Arun Kumar Bhatt told...

Bhopal Gas Victims Get Spurious Drugs, Say Activists

Terming it as a 'citizens raid', Bhopal gas tragedy survivors' organisations claimed //to have seized a large number of sub-standard and expired drugs from two medical stores of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department. ...."A joint team of four organisations, working for the victims of the world's worst man-made industrial disaster, recovered many medicines that had crossed t...

Children of Bhopal Gas Victims Suffer from Deformity

Medical research is desperately needed, especially into the possible genetic and reproductive after effects, of the lethal gas leak in Bhopal exactly// 22 years ago that killed more than 3,000 people instantly and thousands more in subsequent years. ....Despite the neurological, hormonal and mental health problems that the survivors are facing besides the genetic damage to the children born to s...

Funds Increased for Treating Bhopal Gas Victims

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh will spend Rs.30 million per annum for the treatment of cancer patients afflicted with the disease after the Bhopal gas tragedy// - over four times the amount it spends at present. ....This would be effective from the coming fiscal (2007-08). ...."The existing fund of Rs.7 million earmarked for the treatment of the affected cancer patients was insufficient. So it will be...

Bhopal Gas Victims Demand Treatment of Children With Birth Defects

Arguing that chromosomal deviation among people exposed to toxic gases from the Union Carbide plant was causing birth defects among their children//, survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy Sunday demanded free treatment of the children and a monthly pension of Rs.1000 from the state government. ....The Bhopal tragedy occurred on the night of December 2, 1984, when over 40 tonnes of lethal methyl is...