‘75% of Covid dead in Bhopal are gas victims’

BHOPAL: A group of four NGOs working among survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster claimed on Monday that 45 of the 60 Covid-19 deaths in the city they studied are gas victims.
Bhopal’s Covid toll stood at 85 on Monday, and the NGOs say they have gathered data on 60 of them.
The NGOs have sent their report to chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, pointing out that 75% of the gas victims, who were killed by Coronavirus, died within five days of admission, and 81% of them had comorbidities attributed to exposure to deadly MIC gas.
The NGOs — Bhopal Group for Information & Action, Bhopal Gas Peedit Stationery Karmachari Sangh, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha and Children against Dow-Carbide — said an additional 5% of the dead are children of gas victims.
What’s more, 85% of those aged below 60, who were killed by Coronavirus, were gas tragedy survivors. Twenty-seven gas victims died at the state-run Hamidia Hospital alone, which is 89% of its Coronavirus toll.