Bhopal Cried today, the Gas tragedy

 Gas tragedy Bhopal

 it was Night of the 2nd and 3rd December of 1984.The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is considered to be the world's worst industrial disaster.Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas. The highly toxic substance made its way into and around the small towns located near the plant.

That incident as per the government data show me various places state that near about 4000 people were died but unofficially and from a different activist and officials it is estimated near about 16000 people were dead by this incident. As this incident not only cover all the Bhopal but other nearby places to Bhopal.

I was coming from Delhi read here about 1.00 a.m. when I reached with my children in Bhopal station I started to feel eye irritation and breathing problem.my wife and children also started to feel the Same, I was not aware what is going on.ee took  auto and we want to home but all the health problem was continue, later we came to know there is gas leak from the union carbide factory. then we all decided to leave the Bhopal. we only came back when the announcement made related to safety of the Bhopal.



The leak 

Leak of the gas was observed by the employee of the union carbide factory at 11.25 pm but there were ignorance from the staff which led to  major gas Leak.meanwhil they went on tea break and later when they started work it was too late. The damage was too high in the tank to repair it. Timely alarm was not rung. And the administrative authority was not immediately informed.

Nearby 2 a.m. gas was leaking with very high pressure And it was blowing towards south east direction from the north west direction of BhopalAbout 30 tonnes of MIC escaped from the tank into the atmosphere in 45 to 60 minutes. This would increase to 40 tonnes within two hours time. The  methyl isocyanide MIC gas is heavy then Air so it was close to the earth and people with short height and children were mostly affected. The initial effects of exposure were coughing, severe eye irritation and a feeling of suffocation, burning in the respiratory tract, blepharospasm, breathlessness, stomach pains and vomiting.

The health care system immediately became overloaded. In the severely affected areas, nearly 70 percent were under-qualified doctors. Medical staff were unprepared for the thousands of casualties. Doctors and hospitals were not aware of proper treatment methods for MIC gas inhalation.

This incident led to  immediate effect and long term health effects

Long term effects are:

1 Eyes: Chronic conjunctivitis, scars on cornea, corneal opacities, early cataracts

2 Respiratory tracts: Obstructive and/or restrictive disease, pulmonary fibrosis, aggravation of TB and chronic bronchitis

3 Neurological system: Impairment of memory, finer motor skills, numbness etc.

4 Psychological problems: Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

5 Children's health: Peri- and neonatal death rates increased. Failure to grow, intellectual impairment, etc.

Apart from that, female reproduction, chromosomal aberrations, cancer, immune deficiency, neurological sequelae, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)  recorded years later.and children born after the disaster Late cases that might never be highlighted are respiratory insufficiency, cardiac insufficiency (cor pulmonale), cancer and tuberculosis. Bhopal now has high rates of birth defects and records a miscarriage rate 7x higher than the national average.

Before that in union carbide Corporation gas leak reported and up to this incident  there had been more than 10 incident reported off gas leak in which death of worker and injuries took place but  nobody taken it seriously, even administrative authority had not any concern with it if they had been taken serious notice this incident could have been  avoided. It should be mandatory to deploy at least one government official as safety auditor in any factory throughout India. To avoid such kind of the incidents.