India, March 17 -- AIIMS-Delhi has initiated protocols to implement the Supreme Court verdict allowing passive euthanasia for Harish Rana, a process that will take about two to three weeks, say insiders.

The 31-year-old, who has been in a coma since 2013, was shifted from his Ghaziabad home to the palliative care unit at Dr BR Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences on Saturday.

A specialised medical team headed by Dr Seema Mishra, professor and head of the department of anaesthesia and palliative medicine, has been constituted to implement the process, the first ever in India.

The team comprises doctors from departments of neurosurgery, onco-anaesthesia and palliative medicine, and psyc...