Bhopal: The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984 was a catastrophe that has no parallel in the world's industrial history. While several thousand were killed immediately when the deadly methyl isocyanate leaked on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984 from a pesticide plant of Union Carbide in Bhopal, lakhs were affected with thousands more succumbing in the coming weeks and months.
Those who managed to survive lead a wretched life as they have been totally ignored by the state and well as Union government.
Ramadhar Srivastava, a survivor of the tragedy, was an electrician in private factory. After inhaling the deadly gas, Ramadhar became a heart patient. He has been unemployed since 2002 and has the responsibilities of his entire on him.
He alleged that Bhopal Memorial Hospital tested several medicines on him without his knowledge and made him a guinea pig.
Ramadhar revealed that whenever he went to Bhopal Memorial Hospital to avail free treatment for gas tragedy survivors, he was provided red and yellow coloured medicines in bottles. He continued to take the medicines without knowing their side effect and believing that they would cure him.
Ramadhar said that when his condition worsened, he sought his treatment papers and names of medicines administered to him from the hospital but was denied the same. So he was force to move to another hospital for his treatment.
Another victim of the gas tragedy, Lakshmi Bai, alleged that her husband Shankar Lal, who too was a heart patient, faced the same condition. The hospital allegedly tested several medicines on him and after two years he died.
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