As Madhya Pradesh has moved towards unlocking in a phased manner seeing the second wave of Covid-19 ebbing, the hapless survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide tragedy continue to suffer. Since last year the survivors’ organisations are claiming that 1984 victims account for more than half of the Covid-19 casualties in Bhopal and it seems the situation remains the same. …
Painting a grim picture of the health hazards the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy sufferers have endured in the past 15 years, an organisation working for their treatment said that ailments among survivors have surged in this period. Dr Sanjay Srivastava from Sambhavna Trust Clinic, a dedicated facility in the old city for treatment of victims of the industrial disaster, said …