International Medical Commission On Bhopal - Recommendations of The IMCB

Recommendations of The IMCB

The IMCB made the following recommendations:

1. Reorganization of the health system to establish a network of community-based primary care clinics;

2. The gas-related disease categories need to be broadened to include central nervous system and psychological (PTD) injury;

3. A conference to determine best practice rehabilitation medicine, including both Western and Indian expertise, must be undertaken to develop rational treatments and prescription drugs for survivors.

3. Health data collected by the ICMR should be communicated to the population and submitted for publication in professional journals.

4. Gas victims to have the right of access to their medical records;

5. Victim organizations should be adequately represented in the national and state commissions dealing with the disaster;

6. Criteria for compensation should include medical, economic and social damage to the victims

7. Allocation of resources for economic and social rehabilitation of people and their communities should be made.

8. Thorough examination of the impact of the toxic waste buried on the Union Carbide site and its potential for further damage to public health needs to be researched.