India, Australia Unite In Huge Effort To Bring Ailing Student Home

Arshdeep Singh was airlifted from Melbourne in a special flight that is being flown by Qantas after other carriers allegedly refused to fly him.

In a rare humanitarian gesture, authorities in India and Australia came together to help repatriate a 25-year-old Arshdeep Singh, suffering from a chronic renal ailment, to India. Glad to learn that Arshdeep 25Yr #Indian#student in #Australia diagnosed with chronic renal failure has been airlifted from #Melbourne & en route to #Delhi.Thanks to @dfat@MEAIndia & @PSCINDIAN for facilitating his repatriation thru a special flight of @Qantas dedicated for him pic.twitter.com/KfE1d3ito9 He was airlifted from Melbourne in a special flight that is being flown by Qantas - the flag carrier of Australia and its largest airline by fleet size - after other carriers allegedly refused to fly him. Mr Singh landed at the airport around 6:15 pm today from where he was taken to a hospital in Gurugram. "I would like to thank the Indian and Australian governments for bringing me back to my home country safely," Arshdeep Singh said as he was wheeled out of the airport by his family. The 25-year-old, who moved to Australia for higher education in 2018, was seen travelling in an empty flight along with his medical equipment in a video shared by former president of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee Manjit Singh GK.