- Programme held at at BMHRC; Governor to attend Sarvadharma Sabha today
Bhopal: On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, on Monday, tribute was paid to the deceased of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy by lighting candles. In this program, Sports, Youth and Cooperation Minister Vishwas Kailash Sarang, Mayor Smt. Malti Rai and BMHRC Director-in-Charge Dr. Manisha Srivastava along with the hospital staff and students paid tribute to the deceased of the gas tragedy with moist eyes and observed two minutes of silence.
Now on Tuesday and on entering the 25th year of Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Center (BMHRC), a special cover will be released by the Postal Department and Sarvadharma Sabha will be organized and elderly gas victims will be honored.
After lighting the candles on Monday, Sarang and the Mayor distributed health kits to the patients admitted in the hospital. Later, health kits were distributed to the patients admitted in all the wards. On this occasion, Sarang said that the gas tragedy that happened on the night of 2nd and 3rd December is horrific for the entire humanity. This tragedy taught us that development and industrialization have their own importance, but it should not be bigger than the life of any person. What happened that night is horrific for the entire humanity. He told that I and my family were also trapped in that terrible night of the gas tragedy and we too had to leave our house like other people.
Elderly gas survivors to be honoured
On 3rd December, from 8:30 am, Sarvdharm Sabha will be organised near the ‘Shraddhanjali and Asha’ memorial of BMHRC. During this, religious leaders of all religions will recite their religious scriptures. After this, elderly gas victims above 85 years of age will be honoured. Apart from this, health camps will be organised in all the health centres of BMHRC with the cooperation of the Health Department of the Government of Madhya Pradesh. In these camps, health checkup of people, free checkup and medicine distribution, screening of non-communicable diseases will be done. Abha and Ayushman IDs will be made in the camps. Blankets have also been donated for poor patients by organizations named Rotary Club and Mahavir International, which will be distributed in the wards.
Unveiling of special cover
BMHRC has recently entered the 25th year of its establishment. On the 40th anniversary of the gas tragedy, a special cover will be released by the Indian Postal Department to mark this contribution of the institute. The special cover issued by the Postal Department is a special postal cover, which is dedicated to an important occasion, event, person, place, or a subject of historical, cultural, social or scientific importance.
