When illness meets India's rising heat
- Omair Farooq & Alishan Jafri
- May 29
- 1 min read
No doctors back home. No money for private care. For India’s poor, AIIMS Delhi is the last hope.But as they wait on pavements for cancer, kidney or heart treatment, they face another invisible threat: Delhi’s deadly heat
Omair Farooq
Alishan Jafri
No doctors back home. No money for private care. For India’s poor, AIIMS Delhi is the last hope.But as they wait on pavements for cancer, kidney or heart treatment, they face another invisible threat: Delhi’s deadly heat. Watch how India’s public healthcare crisis is unfolding—right outside its most prestigious hospital.
Reporting by: Omair Farooq & Alishan Jafri
Story editor: Asmita Nandy
This story is produced as part of The Heat Shift series that will explore the unequal impact of heat on some of the world’s most marginalised The authors have researched the subject for an ongoing project on rising heat undertaken for People First Cities that looks at inclusive, participatory approaches to improve the quality of life of informal settlement residents and informal workers.
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