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Medical victims: Indian visa curbs amid Bangladesh tensions hurt patients

Shariful Islam and his wife, from Joypurhat in northwestern Bangladesh, have been travelling to India for the past four years for medical treatment. Now, their visas have expired and they're struggling to get new ones [Moudud Ahmmed Sujan/Al Jazeera]

Dhaka, Bangladesh – Khadiza Khatun’s life took a devastating turn in September when doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital informed her that her 37-year-old husband, Mohammad Nuri Alam, urgently needed a liver transplant – a procedure unavailable in Bangladesh.

After careful research, they decided to go to India’s Asian Institute of Gastroenterology in Hyderabad, a trusted destination for many Bangladeshi patients.

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