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Chemical Tragedy Leaves Legacy of 'Bhopal Brides'

by Trilok on December 01, 2009 at 12:22 PM Indian Health News

The Bhopal gas disaster killed thousands 25 years ago this week and left many more ill from exposure one being Jyoti whose hopes of a glittering wedding were shattered.

Chemical Tragedy Leaves Legacy of 'Bhopal Brides'

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Having endured the lethal billow of methyl isocyanate gas which seeped from the Union Carbide plant on December 3, 1984, Jyoti and her contemporaries then suffered the stigma of being survivors.

"No one would marry her," said her mother Sheela. "They looked at her health and saw how sick she was, and that she was always going for treatment for her kidney and respiratory problems."

At just 39, Jyoti is practically a spinster by Indian standards, where despite increased educational and career opportunities, women are still pressured to marry young and reproduce soon after.

But the chances of a childless marriage or spending a fortune treating children with birth defects turned many Bhopal women into pariahs.

Research conducted by the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) until 1994, showed that 25,000 people had died from the consequences of gas exposure, in addition to the 8,000 to 10,000 people who were killed within the first three days.

Government statistics compiled after 1994, concluded that at least 100,000 people living near the factory in central Madhya Pradesh state were chronically sick, with more than 30,000 residing in areas with contaminated water.

According to the ICMR, the number of still births and miscarriages increased immediately after the disaster, and activists say more than 350 tonnes of toxic waste strewn around the site still pollute soil and groundwater in the area, leading to hormonal and fertility disorders and other illnesses.

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