"THAT
NIGHT"
3rd December 1984
Shortly after midnight poison gas leaked from a factory in Bhopal, India,
owned by the Union Carbide Corporation. There was no warning, none of
the plant's safety systems were working. In the city people were sleeping.
They woke in darkness to the sound of screams with the gases burning their
eyes, noses and mouths. They began retching and coughing up froth streaked
with blood. Whole neighbourhoods fled in panic, some were trampled, others
convulsed and fell dead. People lost control of their bowels and bladders
as they ran. Within hours thousands of dead bodies lay in the streets.
READ MORE
Read a survivor's account of "that night".
FACTSHEETS (PDFs)
Continuing
health crisis
Lack
of medical research
Need
for health surveillance
Community
health
Women's
health
Effects
on next generation
Mental
health
Alternative
health care
Bhopal
Memorial Hospital Trust
Economic
rehabilitation
Compensation
People
in need of social support
Bhopal
memorial project
Uncertainty
of financial resources
Corruption
and mismanagement
Water
contamination
Supply
of clean water
Clean
up
National
Commission on Bhopal
Prosecution
of Union Carbide
Prosecution
of Indian accused
Dow
Chemical
Dursban
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| Please
download this excellent 3'30"
film made by Design Workshop, Delhi, and spread it widely across
the internet. The Bhopalis can't afford a $100 million advertising
campaign, but they have you. To make a donation to help the damaged
children shown in the film, please click here. |
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This appeal ran on July 5th 2008 in the Guardian, Independent and Times. Photographs by Micha Patault. Download Micha's book on Bhopal and its children. If you want to help, you can donate here. This website contains information about the free clinic in Bhopal started by the survivors themselves with help from friends in the UK. For up to date news and the background on this story, the water poisoning, or to join the ongoing hunger strike please visit bhopal.net. For more information about damaged chidren please scroll all the way down this page and read our newsletters. |
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Photographer Micha Patault's brilliant images of Bhopal and its damaged children available in French Click on the image to download
a PDF. English version coming soon. |
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Desperate Bhopalis launch hunger strike in Delhi Please support them. Get the facts and the latest news at bhopal.net, the website of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. If you have questions, concerns, or are not sure what you can do to help, please talk to us: 777@bhopal.org. The staff and trustees of The Bhopal Medical Appeal fasted on 17th June in sympathy with the Hunger Strikers. If you would like to fast for a day, please join the fast here.
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| Our damaged children "People didn’t know, because no one told them, that the ground yards from their houses, was severely contaminated. A private Union Carbide memo reports that samples of water taken inside the factory proved instantly fatal to fish. It containded naphthol (abdominal pain, convulsions, diarrhoea and vomiting) and naphthalene (anaemia, cataracts, retinal damage, liver and brain damage, possible cancer). Carbide had known of the danger since 1989 but gave no warnings. It watched silently as families already ruined by Carbide’s gases drank, and bathed their kids in, poisoned water." |
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Laccho's grief This appeal ran on October 20th 2007 in the Guardian and Independent. Laccho Bi and her husband lived near the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. They lost a series of children through illness. A surviving daughter was two when the horrific gas leak happened and changed Lachho's life forever. |
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Amir's story This appeal went out on Saturday
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"That
night" - What happened on the night of 2-3 December 1984 in Bhopal
Aziza's story - a member of our clinic staff
tells of miscarrying on 'that night'
Unto us a child is born - an article about
the spate of horrific births that followed the original gas disaster of
1984.
Portraits of pain - children from
the poisoned communities, photographed during a health camp in December
2006.
Poisoned innocents
- pictures and brief histories of some of the children we see at
Sambhavna
Never had a chance to live - photographs from
Hamidia Hospital
Sambhavna Trust exhibition – must see
Life
and death of a mad Bhopali child -
an appeal in memory of our friend Sunil
Poisoned a second time
- how the death factory continues to kill
Photographs of the abandoned factory
- by Maude Dorr and Dan Sinha
Carbide's secret
documents - the proof that for ten years Union Carbide knew
and kept silent about the poisoning of soil and water
Greenpeace
report on contamination of drinking water (PDF
720kb)
Surviving
Bhopal, Toxic present, toxic future - A Report
on Human and Environmental Chemical Contamination around the Bhopal disaster
site by Srishti For the Fact Finding Mission on Bhopal (January 2002)
(Word version
964kb)
(PDF version 772kb)
Please
help with a donation
£35 IS ALL
IT TAKES TO HEAL A CHILD AND TRANSFORM THEIR LIFE
Questions,
suggestions, please email
777@bhopal.org
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A big thank you to all our friends
Nearly 23 years after the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, upwards of 100,000 people in the city are still seriously ill. The drinking water of a further 20,000 has been poisoned by chemicals leaking from the abandoned plant. Ignoring "polluter pays" laws, Union Carbide and its owner Dow Chemical have refused to pay for a clean-up.
The Bhopal Medical Appeal began in Britain as a joint effort of ordinary individuals to bring free medical relief to the victims of the gas and water disasters. We now have supporters across the world. At our Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal all consultations, treatments, therapies and medicines are completely free. We have given medical care to around 30,000 people and in 2002 the clinic won the Margaret Mead Award which is given to small groups who make a big difference in the world.
In
April 2005 we opened the beautiful new clinic you see below. Huge thanks
to all who have contributed towards the building costs, and whose work
and donations keep
the clinic running. This is your great work.
