IndiGo starts Dhaka-Hyderabad route for medical treatment

IndiGo, an Indian low-cost airline, started two weekly direct flights between Dhaka and Hyderabad for affordable medical treatment of Bangladeshi patients at Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad.

Apollo Hospitals authority offers treatments for robotic urology surgery on cancer, heart, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, and transplantation for liver, kidney, and bone marrow.

On the launch of air connection, Apollo Hospitals arranged a press conference at a hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday.

Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad International Divisional Vice-President Radhey Mohan said that Bangladeshi people were waiting for a long time to see direct flights between the two cities for medical tourism. Patients will get special services for at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. Therefore, free transfer between airport and hospital, physician appointment service, OP investigation and visa extension support will be provided by the hospital authority, according to a press release.

Apollo Hospital Representative in Bangladesh Shafiq Azam said Hyderabad has become reliable city for combined health care where the world famous Apollo Hospital is located. We have all experiences including illness, physical fitness, and therapy.

Apollo Hospital Consultant Surgical Urology Oncologist and Robotic Surgeon Sanjai Addla visualized a Bangladesh cancer situation in a global context and his surgical treatment through the latest robotic technology.

“In the year 2020, a total of 15,67,75 people were infected with cancer. Of them, 10,89,90 people had died (70 per cent). Breast cancer is the most common in Bangladesh (26.3 per cent) then gall bladder, head and neck, cervical cancer,” Sanjai Addla projected.