Over 25,000 people are estimated to have died in the Bhopal gas disaster that occurred 40 years ago on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984. Regrettably, they and those registered with other hospitals and clinics under the gas relief department of the state government are denied the best available treatment, despite ₹1,200 crore earmarked for this lying unutilised with …
In the second week of November, the Madhya Pradesh High Court had directed the Indian Council of Medical Research to fill the vacant posts of doctors and paramedical staff at the Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre within the next 14 days. Due to the neglectful attitude of the Central government, the exodus of 10 prominent doctors and many other …
Organisations working with the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster have accused the Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre of criminal negligence and mismanagement after six victims of the gas tragedy who recently contracted Covid-19 died in the institute’s isolation ward over the past fortnight. “BMHRC’s motto, ‘In service of gas victims’, and this hospital is doing every disservice …
As tens of doctors quit the only government-run super speciality hospital for the Bhopal gas tragedy survivors in 2014-2015, former Supreme Court Judge Faizanuddin wrote: “handing over the hospital to the Government of India has in fact proved to be its burial order.” After the Bhopal Memorial Trust — the custodian of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre for …
They are upset over lack of infrastructure at the hospital and denial of promotions, one of the doctors who resigned said on condition of anonymity Bhopal: One more doctor at the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, set up for survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, quit on Thursday, a day after 13 doctors at the facility resigned, a …
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