Q3Bhopal

**__Question 3 __: Describe the impact the disaster had on the environment and people. ** The gas cloud quickly spread throughout the nearby community. The first effects of exposure include coughing, vomiting, severe eye irritation and a feeling of suffocation. People awakened by these warning signs tried to get away from the plant. There were more people running and inhaling at the same time than those who had a vehicle to ride. According to low height, children and other people shorter height breathed in higher concentrations. Many people got trampled on while trying to escape. By the morning hours thousands of people had died. There were a very huge number of bodies found in the Narmada River as well as the number of funerals and cremations. 170,000 people were treated at hospitals. 2,000 buffalo, goats, and other animals were found then collected and buried. Within a few days, leaves on trees turned yellow and wilted then finally fell off. Supplies, especially food, became scarce owing to suppliers' safety fears. Fishing was banned as well, which caused further supply shortages. A total of 36 areas were marked by the specialists as being "gas affected", affecting a population of 520,000. Of these, 200,000 were under 15 years old and 3,000 were pregnant women. Until 1991, 3,928 deaths had been confirmed. Independent organizations documented 8,000 dead in the first days. Other estimations vary between 10,000 and 30,000. Another 100,000 to 200,000 people are estimated to have permanent injuries of different degrees. Approximately about 100,000 to 200,000 people have long-lasting injuries. Stated symptoms are eye problems, respiratory difficulties (breathing difficulties), and neurological disorders (nerve sickness), cardiac failure secondary (heart failure) to lung injury, female generative difficulties and birth defects between children born to affected women.

Twenty-five years after the gas tragedy in the central city of Bhopal, the country's pollution agency has confirmed huge quantities of chemicals in underground water and soil around the site, a newspaper reported Sunday. Although previous investigations found presence of highly toxic substances in the radius of the Union Carbide plant, the government study is significant given the official government position that the site was safe.



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