Shelter homes near hospitals almost vacant due to low awareness in Delhi
Temporary shelter homes near major hospitals in Delhi remain largely unoccupied due to low awareness among patients and their attendants. Many individuals continue to sleep on the streets, unaware of the available facilities or deterred by transportation costs. Efforts are being made to increase awareness through drives and informational posters.
- ▪A shelter home near AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital has only eight occupants despite having 60 beds available.
- ▪Patients often remain unaware of the shelters and face challenges with transportation costs.
- ▪Temporary shelters have been established as part of a summer action plan to accommodate up to 750 people across 13 locations.
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A kilometre from AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital, a temporary shelter home with 60 beds, coolers, and fans inside a community hall in Green Park remains scarcely occupied.Outside the hospitals, meanwhile, many continue to spend nights on footpaths under the open sky, battling the heatwave with hand fans and thin bedsheets, with several unaware that such shelters exist nearby and others deterred by the cost of commuting to and from them.On the night of May 21, there was not a single inmate at the shelter home.Over the next two days, as shelter home caretakers carried out awareness drives near the hospitals, patients and attendants slowly began trickling in.
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