The word Carbide has long been associated with serious health hazards in Madhya Pradesh, a state yet to recover from the scars of the gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal on intervening night ...
The rate of cancer occurrence is about 13 times more among the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal as compared to that in a matched unexposed population.
Almost 42 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Madhya Pradesh government will build a memorial on the site of the Union Carbide factory to honour those killed and maimed by the highly toxic gas ...