tv A Poisoned Legacy Deutsche Welle March 29, 2020 4:30pm-5:01pm CEST
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gary trust was founded in 2006 by 2 survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster rashida b is one of them local us allow or sell everything ok. tell. him. that. he. yeah well you know you've got a record as a head although i still see the impact of union carbide spurs in after 35 years and it's actually growing worse in the babies who were born right afterwards are now adults and these are their children so they are the 2nd and 3rd generations of disabled children we're still seeing the effects but the government's doing nothing . the disabilities are the result of hours long exposure to the toxic gas metal ice assigning 8 which escaped from the plant in 1984 and by decades of using water
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contaminated by chemical waste abandoned at the site. now wave your hands. actually the part of this it is armed with this nobody goes to work with these 2 rows because they are not giving money to them and we are have been wanting that he'd given them that if he would see of cause and they are getting help from was. physically disabled it is. really about men you know doing this it is like. old and wrong that's cleared from the. room or this isn't. the. 13 year old to she is paralyzed on one side of her body her mother who was born in 1903 shortly before the catastrophe really leaves her side.
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move forward a little. come put your foot down in front. of. you don't be scared don't be scared. now on your own go up go take a step. that live when coming here since she was 2 and a half before she couldn't talk or walk or sit or neck had no strength since i've been bringing her here she started to walk she can stand make steps and she can talk she's really progress to a lot. of the 2 women who found a church in gary rashid to be a muslim and champion a hindu would like to offer more places to more children for 35 years they have 4
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to help victims of the bhopal disaster. we have been together from the beginning since the gas tragedy we both got jobs at the central government press and since then we have been together the same because they have fought together and we got an award together and with that we started the ching garri trust. that is up and i think. in 2004 they received the golden environmental prize often called the green nobel prize and used 125000 dollars prize money to open the rehabilitation center since then it has mainly been financed by the folk. medical appeal of british charity. it has been a life of suffering for many of the victims' families since december the 3984. in my family my father got cancer and died 2 years later my sister in law got
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tongue cancer and died and her 3 daughters died 21 from a brain tumor and one from a stomach tumor all 3 daughters died and even her husband 9 people from my family diet some people survived that night unfortunately the ones who died that night were lucky those are survived are dying slowly even today. we. never got to. this is a nearby ass's so went blank and behind. the making of mice in. total rancho one was an engineer in a plant that made metal iso cyanide or m i c a component of the pesticide 7 luckily for him he was not there in the night in
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december 1941 of the mit tanks exploded the toxic gas leaked from the plant for hours the building still stands but nature has reclaimed the derelict $25.00 test site. after closing this plant could be 5 years it's not a single case you have to. learn so i was real close i go by union carbide got it i thought about the gold mine. it's the same story in. the former quality control lab no decontamination took place. missed a show and worked in the plant for 9 years he says he knew it was a ticking time bomb.
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poorest now. because undergoing. uncommented. by the. thousands of people who live nearby day of the victims of what could be called the 2nd disaster the contaminated water that has been poisoning them for 35 years since the gas tragedy. in 2004 the indian supreme court ordered the city to provide residents with drinking water since then a few neighborhoods have been connected to. the water network but the pipes are often leaky and sewage mingles with the clean mortar. to children's here is a nurse from the some above new clinic every week she pays a visit to her patient indra. i knew that the tap i fill my water from i used to have to go further and fill it over there but now i have it
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here by. being fine. but since the taps are only on for an hour a day people here store water for the rest of the day in the open air. people here drink contaminated water for a long time clean water from the modern river has only been available for 80 years now before that people drank contaminated water from bore wells or hand pumps it affected their internal organs and many of them also have skin diseases. that is probably the cause of the source on interest hands. according to studies by the indian institute of toxicology research the contamination of the groundwater in bhopal is spreading in 201842 neighborhoods here were affected a year later it was 6 more.
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at the heart of this area is this some clinic it opened here to be as close as possible to the disaster affected victims. are you. sure. your blood pressure taken by the man over there then you can go are you going to challenge your mom should please work. there while 1st shake the both. 2nd breathe out. 3rd lift up your chin so it will run right down into your throat yeah. this is the. well done so remember the 5 steps that shake it breathe out lift your chin up so it
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goes down. press the button close your mouth that's all there is to it it's. set in our surrounding also known as such it is not a doctor but his door is always open to patients in need of comfort or advice. sachi is the founder and administrator of this treatment center. so this is it is fresh and new met every day between 150 to 200 people come and they come to see different doctors or more medicine and the unique thing about this is we have a computerized medical information system we have in one place we can have information medical information on more than 35000 people as it happens there is no other such data in all of. 35000 victims of toxic gases in
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contaminated water such you open the sump up in a clinic in 1906 with the help of the both medical appeal charity some power means possibility that she was convinced it would be possible to give these people treatment and ease their suffering we decided that we would integrate modern medicine with. and your go so there this was mainly to cut down on people over medication along with this we also included areas that had been neglected by the government like community has such as research. into has come for a consultation about the painful skin condition on her hands. he told me i haven't had this for 2 and a half months. i don't know if it's because of the water but when i put my hands in
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the water it burns. down and the. interesting and i was there dick medical practitioner dr group of body examines 40 patients every day she says that in 20 to 30 percent of cases the water is the cause of the disorder is. sure you want to start in my book it was like i used to see more of the dims but gradually in the last 5 to 6 years. are the number of. contaminated water victims has also increased actually the mean. doff starting over the treatment in some manner was to reduce the dogs ignored these. victims who were exposed to chronicle exposed to chemical toxins so using naturally. the girl formulations. indra lease with a prescription for good. a plant used in traditional medicine against autoimmune
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diseases and allergies one of the 6 doctors who treat patients here every day is a gynecologist most of the patients who come to the sub after the clinic are women . you know you know what's the problem with. my period has lasted for a really long time. prolonged menstrual period how long have you been having heavy bleeding 25 days maybe it's. what all the health issue is that there may be there may be very ok right incidences are very much in this in this guy as we've been bishop and then did i did that normally these days when we do that it gives again at 15 when we say too many in my life formations and. of normal babies and i'm going to be using gas with impatience specially i would giving i if i would defend patients and but maybe find that these but here in the gas victims they're more. out of than 3 might have
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and on the list you say. the one with the mild form. of the doctor has also noted that many of the women he go through before they are 35 many were born soon after the bhopal disaster. be. gas affected people are being treated as if they're not needed you know as if they're expendable. and one of the reasons which we think is because of the if of who they are because half of them are muslims 49 percent of the gas affected people are muslims who in today's india are 2nd grade great citizens if not worse and the other
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half among the hindu more than 80 percent. belong to low cost. the north of the park is a historic place until indian independence in 1947 the city was the seat of a muslim didn't state that ruled the princely state of past a number of ruins still standing but since $984.00 bhopal has been synonymous with the world's worst industrial disaster and yet it seems to be forgotten few visitors come to the remembered ball park museum set up by survivors such you came to book partially after the disaster in 1904 he was studying nearby and wanted to help out and i saw just people way in that you have in that picture of people in small hard to just crying i mean pain and dia's running down more stuff what i saw was helplessness because nobody knew what to do nobody knew if there was anything
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that would listen the same i remember for the 1st 34 nights the sky you may read because so many bodies were getting cremated the official death toll was more than 5000 other sources say 25000 a total of 574000 people were exposed to the toxic fumes. this is warren anderson he mined in 72 here along with them their managers approved the hazardous design for the book plant knowing fully well that it was going to be an suv. the former c.e.o. of the union carbide corporation died in 2014 he was charged with culpable homicide in india but never face trial but the bhopal group for information and action
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continues to fight for justice for the victims the legal battles continue on the issue of appropriate compensation on the cleanup of the site and also the criminal cases against the accused corporations and individuals responsible for the disaster. it is in fact a shame that after so many years later the corporations responsible for the disaster are still investing and profiting. in this country as well as all over the ward. a number of public hospitals will build especially to treat the victims. one was built by the indian central government 6 by the state of match a project an average of 4000 people get treatment here every day there are 634 beds for them these are normal lines at the private sector. near
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a hospital at the state department of bhopal gas tragedy relief and rehabilitation we meet justice v. k. aguilar who heads a committee that oversees the hospitals. under. the. group were maturing in government. nothing is enough. nothing in the world is enough. and being all sorts of. complains. treat mental patients. in the summer this go in on the back of the horse could be. not an intern but the particular case. for many. they can see the best of course but there is a general problem with these gates. says the retired judge the large number of patients is proof that the system is working.
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rational disagrees the activist says the government health system for the victims is an empty shell. you just have to look at the reports that just as agarwal and his team the monitoring committee that has been appointed by the supreme court of india have to look at the reports of the last 10 years and every report will tell you how bad the hospitals are functioning that there are bad quality of medicines that they are nor specialists that 80 percent of specialists are still vacant that is in equipment but that is not brain stuff to run back to quick mend it has no treatment protocol. they have no medical files and no electronic medical data despite the millions in investments the health bill piles residents continues to suffer and then there are the victims of the
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contaminated water they thought to number more than 100000. the some bad no clinic has been able to offset some of the deficiencies of the government's health system its philosophy methods and location make it unique in bhopal. it's a remarkable green haven less than a kilometer away from the union carbide plant. the environment here is not intact especially the soil but still the clinic does its best to cultivate medicinal plants for patients. we are growing. which is very good for infections for lung conditions then we are growing by large here we have a lot of these flowers. this is good for many gynecological problems as well as people with any media as well as people with skin issues. around
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100 different plants are grown here and used for hopeful infusions and applications for the skin but most of them a process to make oils or powders around 85 medicinal products are made here. this is new going the oil. i was packing that just now we feel the oil and packet feeling. it's a pain relief for oil so instead of taking medicine with this oil and you get relief. and this part of licorice root is a remedy for coughs all of the products are prescribed free of charge at the clinic . this pharmacy stocks allopatric and i you very. it's where the patients come to pick up their medications dollars are collected by the sun bhavna trust indicates that even after more than 3 decades residence around the planet or twice as likely
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to die from cancer and lung disease. yes and 3 times as likely to die from kidney disease as people elsewhere 150000 residents suffer from chronic diseases but the past 2nd disaster continues on one side you have the poorest people of in the city on the other 3rd you have be one of the most powerful corporations in the world and that has the support of the most powerful nation. it has the support of the u.s. government what the we what is happening continuing to happen in india in bhopal today the poisoning of the law and then the suffering of the people and we are all happening because the the corporation has been able to get away with it what is happening in bhopal is going to happen everywhere and slow and silent bob are happening everywhere whether we like it or not there is
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a continuous trespass of corporations poisons in our bodies and in our environment so. at the some part in a clinic yoga is used as a healing method for body and mind alongside medical methods to reduce the amount of medications patients take. and to help them improve their daily lives by finding a balance and strength to keep hope alive.
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