Survivors continue to suffer from chronic breathlessness, impaired vision, fertility problems, recurrent fevers, neuro-muscular disorders, fatigue, depression, cancer and immune system damage. It is very likely that many of these conditions will be inherited by future generations of the survivors. Women who were made infertile by the tragedy have been deserted by their husbands. Other young women victims suffer discrimination in marriage. Loss of health means loss of income for everyone affected.
Malnutrition remains a chronic problem for many.
Fifteen years on the story of Bhopal has become old news, but the past and current failings and injustices are forgotten. Very little of this money reached the victims in Bhopal. Union Carbide continues to trade profitably. Two hundred wells around the factory are still unfit for drinking and the effects of the leak are still visible in the trees, plants and wildlife in the area. The human misery continues with little hope of improvement.