New Delhi:Braving the Delhi's cold winter nights on footpaths outside the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) are some patients and their relatives who came all the way from remote corners of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and other states for treatment.
With half-fed half-empty stomachs and nothing except tarpaulin sheets to protect them from the winter dew, these poor people are left at the mercy of those who distribute food and blankets to the poor outside AIIMS.
Narrating their ordeal they said that they are driven outside the hospital in the evening.
"I am here since last 12 days. Food is very costly here. I am sustaining on the mercy of those who distribute some food to poor," said a middle-aged woman who came from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh for treatment.
"For the past one week, I am sleeping outside on footpaths. I am myself a patient but they didn't allow me to stay inside in the evening while we are driven from here also before morning," said a man who came from Purnia in Bihar for treatment.