New Delhi: For the past four days, Mamta Devi has spent a cold day and night challenging on the subway that connects AIIMS Premier and Safdarjung Hospital.
Wrapped with a blanket he brought from the house in Saharsa district in Bihar, Devi was waiting for news about her husband’s heart surgery.
“I managed cold somehow,” he smiled.
“We came in a hurry and did not have time to find accommodation and we found Dharamshalas expensive.
Some locals tell us that patients and families do on the subway, and that’s how I come here.
Of course, toilets and cleanliness are Problems, but what can we do? “Like Devi, there are many other people who take refuge on the subway, avoiding the house of shelter outside this hospital.
Akhtari Begum, 55, from the Bareilly district at Uttar Pradesh lay near the subway stairs with her husband.
He has come to the last five years AIIMS and says that even though there are difficulties, he prefers to live on the subway.
“We felt the cold, but we managed to spend the night because we had no choice,” Shrugged Begum.
“I tried to get a place in one of the shelter houses, but they quoted Covid not to give us in.
Also, now I am used to staying here because I have to come to hospital twice a year.
The smell of urine doesn’t bother me anymore.” Begum Must visit several departments for inspection, including orthopedic parts, geriatrik and skin.
This time he had to spend more days in a temporary residence because he hadn’t got an appointment for OPSD.
Ram Bhavan and his wife Sabitri Devi, a cancer patient, who reached AIIM on Thursday from Gorakhpur, rose, also familiar with the life of the subway.
“We have come here for the past 10 years now.
If we get a gap between the days of treatment, we usually go to our relatives’ house in Jahangirpuri.
Otherwise we spend the night here,” said Ram Bhavan, who was waiting Dating for his wife’s follow-up.
Getting a date for appointments in OPDs is what makes patients in Delhi.
Kamlesh RAM has come from Garhwa, Jharkhand, and is stuck with his seven-year-old wife and son in a shelter since November.
Scheduled for operations in the left knee after the recovery of cancer, 41-year-old RAM has not been dating in AIIMS.
“Every week, I was ordered to wait for a few days.
So far, there is no date appointments given,” Ram said with a sad expression.
“My infection is spreading and I need to replace it twice a day.
It also matured to Covid, I was told there were no beds available.” Patients who were annoyed like RAM would get big help from Saturday.
On Friday, AIIMS announced that reception of routine hospitalization, including elective operations in the general ward and in private wards, will be continued with direct effects on the basis of the basis and in accordance with the availability of staff, in viewing in view and operating theater services.
Ironically, because of the limitation on the OPD and only selective operation is done, there are fewer patients in shelters and beds available.
A visit to the bed showed many empty beds.
Maybe a miserable subway doesn’t know they can find shelter from cold here.
Madan Lal, caregiver in one of the reservoir houses, confirmed, “because the pandemic there is in no hurry at this time.
Otherwise, it is always difficult to accommodate everyone here.”