Kamla Nehru Hospital
building in India
Kamla Nehru Hospital (Hindi: कमला नेहरू चिकित्सालय, KNH) is located in the campus of Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal, the capital of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The hospital, overlooking Bhopal Upper Lake, houses the Bhopal Gas Tragedy related wards for treatment of victims of the world's worst industrial disaster, the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal from a Union Carbide (India) pesticide factory which killed tens of thousands of people. The Kamla Nehru Hospital also has general medical departments.
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