| Record: 1 | | Title: | Bhopal: A decade later. | | Author(s): | Leutwyler, Kristin | | Source: | Scientific American; May97, Vol. 276 Issue 5, p28, 1/5p, 1c | | Document Type: | Article | | Subject(s): | BHOPAL Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984 | | Abstract: | Reports
on the publication of a paper that examines the long-term health
consequences of the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India.
General health problems, fevers, birth complications and respiratory
symptoms; Neurological, psychiatric and ophthalmic diseases; Call for
the creation of a worldwide bill of rights for health and safety to
prevent similar tragedies in the future. | | Full Text Word Count: | 191 | | ISSN: | 0036-8733 | | Accession Number: | 9710064246 | | Persistent link to this record:
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Section: IN BRIEF
FOLLOW-UP
A recent paper in the National Medical Journal of India looks at
long-term consequences of the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India. By
administering questionnaires and clinical tests in 1994, the authors
found that Bhopal residents who had the highest gas exposure 10 years
earlier suffered the largest number of general health problems, fevers,
birth complications and respiratory symptoms. Neurological, psychiatric
and ophthalmic diseases were also most prevalent among the most heavily
exposed. In an accompanying paper, the International Medical
Commission, Bhopal, argues for the creation of a worldwide bill of
rights for health and safety to prevent such tragedies in the future.
They specifically condemn Union Carbide for being less than
straightforward about the quantity and composition of leaking gases at
the time, failing to have provided any emergency preparation and, among
other things, failing to deliver adequate compensation to the afflicted
population. (See June 1995, page 16.)
PHOTO (COLOR): They found that Bhopal residents who had the highest
has exposure 10 years earlier suffered the largest number of general
health problems.
~~~~~~~~ By Kristin Leutwyler
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