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»In Photos: 36 Years after Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Families Still Struggle to Pick Up Threads of Life
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In Photos: 36 Years after Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Families Still Struggle to Pick Up Threads of Life
The Bhopal gas leak, though, was just the beginning. Since the early 1990s, studies have been conducted on soil and water samples from the areas in the factory s vicinity that show high levels of toxic chemicals in the environment.
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Mohd Shafiq was eight years old when his mother vomited blood due to inhalation of MIC gas leaked from the UCIL factory. Thirty years later, Shafiq was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and hypertension (HTN). For the last eight years, he has been on dialysis, which he has to take twice a week.
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In August 1985, eight months after the leak of a highly toxic gas called methyl isocyanate from a Union Carbide Corporation pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, that killed thousands and caused permanent disabilities or premature death for many thousands more, an accidental release of aldicarb oxime from Union Carbideâs plant in Institute sent at least 135 people to the hospital.
The following year, Congress passed the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, which requires industrial operators to report on the storage, use and releases of hazardous chemicals to federal, state and local governments. The lawâs aim is to increase the publicâs knowledge of chemicals at individual facilities, their uses and releases into the environment.