New Delhi: Critically ill cancer patients from across the country are among the hundreds of people who are forced to take shelter outside the premises of the AIIMS in Delhi's bone-chilling cold, as the minimum temperature in the national capital on Saturday plunged to 4.8 degrees Celsius, the second lowest temperature of the season.

45-year-old Ramesh Yadav from Bihar, a throat cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy sessions, has been staying outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Metro station gate for the last two months.