AIIMS subways last refuge for patients and kin

TWO days after the Delhi High Court took suo motu cognisance of patients and attendants sleeping by the roadsides and footpaths near All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in peak winter, a ground survey by this newspaper shows that subways and temporary shelters have emerged the last-resort refuge for hapless people.

- IFRAH MUFTI AND ADITI RAY CHOWDHURY @New Delhi

The subway connecting the AIIMS Metro station, long used by patients’ attendants at night, has now formally been converted into a temporary winter shelter. Until recently, security officials would clear the subway of people by as early as 5 am after letting them use it for the night. However, following the court’s intervention, the government, in collaboration with NGO SPYM, has begun registering those sleeping there to ensur