In pictures: India’s sick find shelter in abandoned buses

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  The buses have been stripped of their seats so patients can sleep on the floor. Sajjad Hussain / AFP

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  Poonam Devi, 40, a cervical cancer patient, takes shelter in a bus. Sajjad Hussain / AFP

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  “We look after four buses outside the AIIMS hospital and they are all jam packed,” said Palvinder Singh, director of the Prerna charity. Sajjad Hussain / AFP

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  “There are limitations on living inside buses. You can’t cook and you have to travel to the nearest public toilet. “But people inside are still happy, and more and more want to be accommodated in there,” Mr Singh said. Sajjad Hussain / AFP

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  Sajjad Hussain / AFP

With temperatures dropping at night to around 4°C, the newly elected Delhi government this month donated seven old, public buses for use as shelters outside hospitals.