According to Pokhara International Airport General Manager Jagannath Niraula, Indian citizen Shambhu Dayal Srivastava, who fell ill during the Muktinath pilgrimage, has been sent to Bhopal on a special charter flight for further treatment.
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A medical rescue charter flight was operated from Pokhara International Airport to Bhopal, India for the first time on Tuesday. The flight was operated to Raja Bhoj Airport, India.
According to Pokhara International Airport General Manager Jagannath Niraula, Indian citizen Shambhu Dayal Srivastava, who fell ill during the Muktinath pilgrimage, was sent to Bhopal for further treatment on a special charter flight.
Srivastava, who had come to Nepal for a pilgrimage from Bhopal, fell ill while returning from the Muktinath area and was rescued from Jomsom and admitted to Charak Memorial Hospital in Pokhara. The airport said that the family chartered a plane for further treatment after 5 days of treatment at the hospital.
The patient's two sons, a doctor and a nurse from Charak Hospital and three health workers are participating in the charter flight. The plane arrived in Pokhara from Kathmandu on Tuesday. The plane will return to Pokhara after taking the patient to Bhopal.
'This is the first departure charter flight from Pokhara to India,' said General Manager Niraula, 'Earlier, a foreign charter flight had arrived in Pokhara via Delhi, India, but the return flight went to Bangladesh.' According to him, charter and special flights have already been operated from Pokhara to Lhasa/Chendu, China, Bhutan and Singapore.
A large number of Indian pilgrims visit Nepal every year to visit Muktinath. Most Indian tourists travel to Muktinath by land and travel to various cities in India via Pokhara-Kathmandu.
Tourism entrepreneurs have been complaining that despite the ample potential for regular international flights from Pokhara to major cities in India, no initiatives have been taken accordingly.
