{"id":434660,"date":"2021-09-07T11:07:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T05:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=434660"},"modified":"2021-09-07T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T07:56:03","slug":"bangla-flights-boost-likely-for-med-tourism-as-private-hosps-expect-a-surge-in-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bangla-flights-boost-likely-for-med-tourism-as-private-hosps-expect-a-surge-in-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangla flights: Boost likely for med tourism as private hosps expect a surge in patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: The resumption of flights to and from Bangladesh on Sunday have made city private hospitals optimistic about a 20%-25% surge in patient footfall over the next two months. Despite an average occupancy of more than 80% in their non-Covid sections \u2014 there has been a spurt in surgeries and procedures post-second wave \u2014 most hospitals have issued hundreds of \u2018visa invitations\u2019 to patients from Bangladesh who would soon descend on the city for treatment, with many combining a trip of Kolkata with it. <\/p>\n<p>AMRI Hospitals have processed more than a thousand visa invitations for Bangladeshi patients and expects a deluge over the next three weeks. \u201cWe expect around 150-200 in-patients and at least 1,000 outpatients from Bangladesh at our three centres by September-end. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: The resumption of flights to and from Bangladesh on Sunday have made city private hospitals optimistic about a 20%-25% surge in patient footfall over the next two months. Despite an average occupancy of more than 80% in their non-Covid sections \u2014 there has been a spurt in surgeries and procedures post-second wave \u2014 most hospitals have issued hundreds of \u2018visa invitations\u2019 to patients from Bangladesh who would soon descend on the city for treatment, with many combining a trip of Kolkata with it. AMRI Hospitals have processed more than a thousand visa invitations for Bangladeshi patients and expects a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}