The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) to prepare action plans to protect patients and their attendants camping outside several government hospitals in the city from harsh weather.
A Bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia was hearing a suo motu petition that was filed after taking cognisance of a January 13 The Hindu report on patients and their kin sleeping on roads outside hospitals amid cold weather.
The Bench directed DUSIB to prepare two annual short-term contingency action plans to tackle harsh weather conditions.
The board was directed to prepare a summer plan to deal with heatwave conditions, which will be implemented in May-June, with the option of extending it to July-August. The second plan to mitigate cold wave conditions will have to be prepared by July-August and implemented in December-January.
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