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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why are patients in cold outside AIIMS: SC

Why are patients in cold outside AIIMS: SC

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published Published on Jan 10, 2012   modified Modified on Jan 10, 2012
-The Times of India
 
"The cold, not cancer, may kill me" - the TOI story on the pitiable condition of patients and relatives braving the biting cold in wait for a bed in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) drew an anguished reaction from the Supreme Court, which on Friday asked the Delhi government to urgently set up a night shelter either inside or close to the prestigious hospital.

A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Dipak Misra, which has been coaxing states to set up night shelters across the country to protect homeless from the vagaries of extreme weather, was disturbed by the plight of patients and their relatives, whose long wait for a bed in the overburdened hospital was worsened by the continuing cold wave conditions.

"We do not want this to continue. The government must build a shelter either inside the hospital or in its immediate proximity," the bench said.

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Delhi government to urgently set up a night shelter either inside or close to AIIMS. The bench asked additional solicitor general Mohan Parasaran to report back to the court on Monday about steps taken in this regard.

Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves drew the bench's attention to the court commissioners' report about closure of 21 permanent night shelters and conversion of 40 tented night shelters into tin sheds in Delhi. The bench wondered why the government converted the tents into tin sheds which would not be able to protect inmates from low temperatures. "How can you have tin sheds in this weather as night shelters," the bench asked.

Parasaran said the tents were converted to tin sheds to avoid fire accidents. But he contested the court commissioners' report about closure of night shelters. He said the court had specifically ordered a joint inspection of night shelters by the court commissioners and officials from Delhi Urban Shelter and Improvement Board (DUSIB). However, the court commissioners went alone for the inspection work.

The bench did not want to waste time in settling the dispute over the status of night shelters and asked the court commissioners to take DISUB officials for a joint inspection over the next three days. It wanted the joint inspection report to be placed before the court on Monday.

Gonsalves also drew the court's attention to the low occupancy rate in night shelters because of non-advertisement of their location. "Many urban homeless continue to suffer the cold lying in open as they do not know the location of night shelters," he said.

The court, which had repeatedly warned the authorities against urban homeless dying of cold wave, stressed that adequate publicity about the location of night shelters must be given to facilitate poor people to avail the facilities.

The commissioners had also given a report a to the court on the poor compliance of the court's orders to the states for setting up of adequate number of night shelters leaving nearly three million people to sleep in the open.


The Times of India, 10 January, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Why-are-patients-in-cold-outside-AIIMS-SC/articleshow/11430646.cms


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