{Galleries}>>{India Galleries}>>{The Bhopal Gallery #3}

The Bhopal Gallery

There are 6 pages in this gallery. This is page 3.

~ The Bhopal Gallery Contents ~
{#1 The Factory (Photographs)}{#2 Protest (Photographs)}{#3 Sambhavna (Photographs)}
{#4 Survivors (Photographs)}{#5 Hospitals (Photographs)}{#6 The Bhopal Tragedy (Words)}

#3 Sambhavna

 

"The Sambhavna Clinic doesn't look like a clinic and since we use plain water instead of biocidal synthetics for cleaning, it doesn't even smell like one. In many ways big and small we are different from other medical care facilities and proud of it. People receiving care are not called patients nor made to feel like one."
From the Sambhavna Trust Report, 1999.

The Sambhavna Trust clinic was opened in 1996 to treat the survivors of the 1984 gas tragedy. They offer a choice of conventional or ayurvedic treatment as well as massage and yoga therapies. Unlike the government hospitals, they keep detailed records on each patient and constantly evaluate the effectiveness of all the treatments they offer. The Trust raises money from private donation and refuses corporate donations.

Click the individual thumbnail images to view them full size.

Sambhavna jpg
105_19.jpg

A yoga class at the Sambhavna Trust clinic.

Sambhavna jpg
105_24.jpg

Breathing exercises during a yoga class at the Sambhavna Trust clinic.

105_5.jpg

A yoga class at the Sambhavna Trust clinic.

Bhopal jpg
105_11.jpg

Breathing exercises during a yoga class at the Sambhavna Trust clinic.

Bhopal jpg
155_34a.jpg

The Sambhavna Trust clinic. K N Chaudhary, the clinic's accountant and manager.

104_35a.jpg

The dispensary at the Sambhavna Trust clinic provides free allopathic and ayurvedic medicines. The trust avoids buying medicines from multinationals and makes 22 ayurvedic medicines themselves. Due to a power cut in Bhopal every morning between 9-11am medicines are dispensed by gaslight.

158_3a.jpg

Women survivors wait to see a gynaecologist at the Sambhavna Trust clinic.

156_5.jpg

A survivor receives ayurvedic steam massage at the Sambhavna Trust clinic.

156_16.jpg

Biju Kumar uses ayurvedic oil to treat a survivor's nasal complaints.

158_33a.jpg

Biju Kumar grinding pomegranate leaves for use in the ayurvedic medicines made at the Sambhavna Trust.

159_11a.jpg

A survivor receives ayurvedic steam massage at the Sambhavna Trust clinic.

157_27.jpg

Staff from the Sambhavna Clinic examine a survivor's chest x-ray.

144_2.jpg

Satinath Sarangi, managing trustee of the Sambhavna Trust, during a minute silence to remember the victims of the Bhopal tragedy.


<<{#2} - Previous Page Next Page - {#4}>>
~ The Bhopal Gallery Contents ~
{#1 The Factory (Photographs)}{#2 Protest (Photographs)}{#3 Sambhavna (Photographs)}
{#4 Survivors (Photographs)}{#5 Hospitals (Photographs)}{#6 The Bhopal Tragedy (Words)}

{Galleries}>>{India Galleries }>>{The Bhopal Gallery #3} © R S Grove. 2001-2007