BHOPAL : More than 6,600 people affected by the Union Carbide plant gas leak in 1984 have been treated this year at the Sambhavna Trust Clinic here.

Addressing presspersons here on Wednesday, managing trustee Satinath Sarangi said the clinic had completed 10 years of service and had about 18,000 people registered with it for long-term treatment through Allopathic, Ayurveda and yoga systems.

This year, from January to November, 6,608 gas victims, including 4,524 females and 2,084 males, visited the clinic.

Mr. Sarangi said that facilities for eye-care, large-scale production of herbal medicines and microbiological tests had been added to the clinic.

Efforts had been taken to encourage affected communities to develop their own medicinal garden.

Mr. Sarangi stressed the need for a clinic in each of the affected communities.

He said employment, pension, safe drinking water, medical research, health surveillance, besides a clean-up of the soil, and groundwater contaminated by the toxic waste at the Carbide plant site were essential for the well-being of the population.

The clinic, which provides free care to gas victims, would hold a four-day exhibition at the Swaraj Bhavan here to mark the 22nd anniveotographs, documents and other material linked to the gas leak would be displayed.

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