Bangladesh
President Germany Visit President Hamid leaves Dhaka for treatment in Germany
Dhaka, October 9: President Mohammad Abdul Hamid has left Dhaka this 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 AKM Mozammel Haque, Vatican Ambassador to Bangladesh Archbishop George Kocherry, British High Commissioner to Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dixon, German Ambassador to Bangladesh Achim Troster, 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 will undergo a medical examination at the Charity University Hospital in Germany and an eye treatment at the Eye Hospital in London. He is expected to return home on October 22 on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from London.
The 77-year-old President Abdul Hamid has been suffering from glaucoma for a long time. He has had health check-ups in London and Germany since he was speaker of Parliament.
