DHAKA: President Md. Abdul Hamid is scheduled to leave here for the United Kingdom on an 8-day visit for his eye treatment and health checkup.
A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines will depart for the UK carrying the president at around 10:30am Saturday (October 21).
He is scheduled to return home October 29.
Sources said that the president will visit Moorefield Eye Hospital and Bupa Cromwell Hospital in London, for the treatment.
Aged 74, President Hamid is suffering from glaucoma for a prolonged period.
Earlier, he went to London in April this year.
BDST: 1653 HRS, OCT 20, 2017
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