Benapole immigration increases passenger travel to India

For the treatment of various complex diseases including heart disease, nerve cancer passenger travel is increasing through the international check post Benapole Pettapol land port of Bangladesh. Passengers are going to India on medical, business and tourist visas. The number of patients is increasing day by day.

Two years ago, 5 to 7 thousand passport passengers used to travel between India and Bangladesh every day through this land port. After the change of government, passengers started to decrease. Tourist visas were stopped. Passenger travel in name was 3 to 5 hundred. Medical and business visas were active in name only, but passenger travel on tourist visas started from July. Meanwhile, immigration officials said that the number of people going to India for medical purposes is increasing.

Noor Islam and Abder Hossain from Dhaka said that treatment in Bangladesh is expensive. The quality of treatment is also not good. As a result, many people go to India in the hope of good treatment at a low cost. They will take their relatives for treatment of complex diseases.

Patients Emon Hossain and Ayesha Begum said that they could not diagnose the disease even after seeing many doctors in the country. They have recovered after going to India. That is why they are going to India in the hope of good treatment at a low cost.

Benapole Checkpost Immigration OC Ferdous Hossain Khan said that the number of patients traveling among passengers going to India on various visas is increasing. The immigration authorities said that 1.5 to 2 thousand passport passengers are traveling every day.

In the last one week, about 7 thousand passengers have traveled to India through this port. And 6 thousand 678 people have returned. The number of patients is more among them, said immigration officials.