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'Bhopal Gas Disease'- No treatment till date

When methyl isocyanate(MIC) is mixed with water at a high temperature, it can produce 65 chemicals, most of them toxic. Today marks the 38th anniversary of the day when Bhopal turned into a gas chamber as methyl isocyanate (MIC) spilled out from Union Carbide India Ltd. 's (UCIL) pesticide factory, making it the world’s largest industrial disaster. As second and third generations of citizens suffer because of the tragedy, even now nobody knows about all the health impacts of MIC or its treatment. Doctors prescribe medications that treat the symptoms rather than the latent cause of it. Hazardous and unnecessary medication just increases the health risks and monetary liability of victims. A survivor of the tragedy today would have consumed over 30kgs of medicines since the accident. A CBI report released a few years after the disaster said that the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) had manufactured poisonous gases for use in World War II and still supplies deadly chemicals to the US chemical weapons arsenal but failed to disclose the exact composition of the leaked gases. UCC began in 1920 with the manufacture of gases like phosgene for the US and its allies. UCIL used trade secrecy to withhold composition of the leaked gases. There was some evidence that it could be cyanide poisoning because injections of sodium thiosulphate were working on the patients. But these treatments were soon discontinued. ICMR had conducted 24 studies which were discontinued in 1994 and their results have not been published till date. Independent studies pointed to cancer, mental disorders and birth defects. But the lack of a pointed epidemiological study makes it easy to dismiss the cause of these consequences to poverty and lack of hygiene. Even though the UCIL factory is now permanently shut, Carbaryl, aldicarb, carbon tetrachloride and chloroform waste dumped around it pollutes drinking water for citizens till date. For more than a decade after the disaster, wastes, by-products and solvents from the machinery polluted water inside and outside the plant. Another 350 tonnes of waste has been kept in a leaking shed at the site polluting soil and groundwater which threatens more people than the actual disaster. These slowly degrading chemicals will remain in the environment and spread unless taken out. When the city will truly recover from the ‘Bhopal Gas Disease’, only time will tell.