Thanks for taking the time to visit this JustGiving page in memory of this amazing woman.

Mehroo Northover has been regularly giving to the Bhopal Medical Appeal for years. This is a humanitarian disaster that she felt very strongly about.

On the night of December 2nd, 1984, a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, began leaking 27 tons of the deadly gas methyl isocyanate. None of the six safety systems designed to contain such a leak were operational, allowing the gas to spread throughout the city of Bhopal. Half a million people were exposed to the gas and over 25,000 have died to date as a result of their exposure. Over 150,000 chronically ill survivors are still in desperate need of medical attention.

For fifteen years before the gas disaster Union Carbide had routinely dumped highly toxic chemical wastes inside and outside its factory site. Some were buried, some simply lay heaped on the soil, open to the elements.

After the catastrophic gas leak, the factory was locked up and left to rot, with all the chemicals and wastes still there. Union Carbide left the factory and its surrounds without cleaning them.

As each year’s monsoon batters the decaying plant and rain overflowing the huge ‘ponds’, the toxins seep down through the soil, and filter into underground channels and pools. Wells drawn from these ground water pools serve around tens of thousands of families, living in forty two townships. Even today, there are constantly new cases of people affected and killed by these events from so long ago.

We believe that DOW must accept responsibility for Bhopal. Until then, The Bhopal Medical Appeal funds two award-winning clinics in the city. Both offer free, first class care to victims of the gas disaster or the ongoing water contamination. The survivors have nowhere else to turn - please help if you can.

If you want to know more please go the website https://www.bhopal.org/