NDTV Impact: Madhya Pradesh Appoints More Doctors For Gas Tragedy Victims

Last year, the Madhya Pradesh High Court had threatened contempt proceedings against top officials for failing to fill vacancies.

Taking swift action after an NDTV report highlighted massive staff shortages in hospitals meant for survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the Madhya Pradesh Health Services Directorate has cleared the appointment of 12 doctors. 

The doctors are among 15 spoken about in the report, whose posting had been cleared, only for some of them to be told informally later that the orders had been cancelled.  

In its July 29 report, NDTV had highlighted that of the 1,247 posts in gas relief hospitals, only 749 - or a little over half - are filled, leaving thousands of gas leak victims without adequate care.