Free air tickets to cancer patients

An agreement has been reached between Yeti Airlines Pvt. Ltd. and Purbanchal Cancer Hospital to provide free air tickets to cancer patients.

The Airline's Chief Commercial Officer Yubaraj Bista and Purbanchal Cancer Hospital Chair Durga Prasai signed the agreement on Saturday.

The facility of free air tickets will help cancer patients, said Dr Birendra Yadav, Medical Superintendent of the hospital.

The Purbanchal Cancer Hospital in Birtamod has been operating since the past five years. It is a 100-bed hospital providing cancer treatment technologies including PET-CT scan, radio therapy, chemotherapy, surgery and other treatments for cancer patients.

Pramish Giri, Public Relations Officer of Purvanchal Cancer Hospital, shared that as per the agreement patients coming from any part of the country for treatment to the hospital can avail this facility once.

He said that the patients will get tickets to go to the hospital and return home.

So far 6,484 cancer patients have been treated at Purbanchal Cancer Hospital in the last five years. Among the new patients diagnosed in the past five years, the highest number of patients treated were 814 with breast cancer and 805 with lung cancer.

The number of patients with cervical cancer and nose, ear, and throat cancer ranked third and fourth respectively, according to the hospital.

Public relations officer Giri shared that the poor families who come to the Purbanchal Cancer Hospital for treatment receive free treatment of up to Rs 100,000 under the government's poor citizen medical treatment program.