BANGLADESH

The President has left Dhaka for Germany

President Mohammad Abdul Hamid left Dhaka on Saturday morning for a 12-day visit to London and Germany for health check-up and eye treatment.

Munshi Jalal Uddin, Deputy Press Secretary to the President, said, “A VVIP flight (QY-639) of Qatar Airways left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 4.25 am today with the President.”

Liberation War Affairs Minister AQM Mozammel Haque, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps and Vatican Ambassador to Bangladesh George Kochari, British High Commissioner to Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dixon, German Ambassador to Bangladesh Achim Truster, Cabinet Secretary, Chief of Staff, Chief of Police Staff, Military officials bid farewell to the President at the airport’s VVIP lounge.

President Abdul Hamid is scheduled to undergo a medical examination at the Charity University Hospital in Germany and an eye treatment at the Eye Hospital in London.

“The head of state is expected to return to the country on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from London on October 22,” he said.

77-year-old President Abdul Hamid has been suffering from glaucoma for a long time.

He used to health check-ups in London and Germany since he was speaker of parliament.

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