Air India gives free tickets to patients with rare disease

Air India on Sunday announced that it gave free round-trip tickets to three patients from Bangladesh who are suffering from a crippling disease. The move came after a Mumbai-based neurosurgeon offered to treat the patients, aged 8, 14 and 24, as their family was seeking euthanasia. The three suffer from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a disorder that causes progressive muscle degeneration.