Saturday, November 27, 2004
Bhopal 20 Years on
... Some believe numbers of Bhopal's victims now exceed 20,000, while tens of thousands continue to suffer from chronic illnesses. The city's miscarriage rate is seven times the national Indian average, and rates of skin, lung and gastro-intestinal cancers have soared. Every day 4,000 people queue at the city's gas relief hospitals with ailments ranging from damaged lungs and severe heart problems to wrecked immune systems and diseases such as tuberculosis. ...
[More info at http://www.bhopal.net/, including a survior's story at http://www.bhopal.org/aziza.html]
... Some believe numbers of Bhopal's victims now exceed 20,000, while tens of thousands continue to suffer from chronic illnesses. The city's miscarriage rate is seven times the national Indian average, and rates of skin, lung and gastro-intestinal cancers have soared. Every day 4,000 people queue at the city's gas relief hospitals with ailments ranging from damaged lungs and severe heart problems to wrecked immune systems and diseases such as tuberculosis. ...
[More info at http://www.bhopal.net/, including a survior's story at http://www.bhopal.org/aziza.html]
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