28 FFs getting free treatment in India

A group of 28 Bangladeshi freedom fighters are undergoing medical treatment free of cost at army hospitals in New Delhi and Pune.

They arrived in India last week, and 13 of them got admitted in the Army Hospital in New Delhi while another 15 are receiving treatment in another army hospital in Pune.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali met the freedom fighters, aged between 60 and 70, at the hospital in Delhi on Tuesday and enquired about their ailments and treatment, a press release from the High Commission said yesterday.

The freedom fighters expressed satisfaction at the treatment for complications from stroke, prostrate, diabetes and partial paralysis.

The treatments is being funded by the Indian government as per an announcement made in April 2017 by Indian PM Narendra Modi to provide free medical treatment to 100 freedom fighters of the 1971 Liberation War.