D-23 | Saddam

Saddam suffers fom anemia.

Anaemias are due to the contamination of water by pesticides left in the plant and washed by rainwater (there are still pesticides on the spot). Indeed, Union Carbide left without cleaning up the site. Moreover, according to former workers of the Union Carbide factory, while the factory was in operation, massive amounts of chemicals - including pesticides, solvents, catalysts and wastes - were routinely dumped in and around the factory grounds. These include deadly substances such as aldicarb, carbaryl, mercury, and several chlorinated chemicals.

• 52% of women suffurs from anemia in India [1]
• 95% of women suffurs from anemia in Atal Ayub Nagar (a community affected by water contamination) [2]

  [1] UNICEF. [2] Sambhavna Clinic, sample of 141 women ; 2000