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| 25 years on, still waiting for Bhop |
| 25 years on, still waiting for Bhopal gas research
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| INDIA
, 3-December-2009
1:39:34 AM |
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This January, 25 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) invited research to study the effects of methyl isocyanate (MIC) poisoning. After 11 months, ICMR has received only two proposals. A disappointed Council has now decided to keep the ‘call for research proposals’ open till it gets some noteworthy submissions.
The biggest failure, according to medical experts, is that the line of treatment given to patients exposed to MIC has remained essentially unchanged since the morning of the disaster, when nothing was known about the poisonous gas.
“Two generations of victims exposed to MIC have been indiscriminately prescribed antibiotics, steroids and psychotropic drugs to ‘manage’ their ailments instead of finding a cure. No focused research has been conducted in developing an antidote to cyanide poisoning,” said Dr DK Satpathy, who retired as director of Medicolegal Institute, Government of MP, this September. “If a patient has headache, she will be given Saridon, the same for breathlessness and all other symptoms caused by MIC.”
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