President M Abdul Hamid left Dhaka in the early hours of Saturday on a 16-day visit to Germany and the UK for a health check-up, reports BSS.
A regular aircraft of Qatar Airways, carrying the President and his wife Rashida Khanam, took off from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps and Moroccan Ambassador to Bangladesh Majid Halim, British High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson, Ambassador of Germany to Bangladesh Achim Tr"ster and other high-ranking civil and military officials saw the President off at the VVIP lounge of the airport.
The head of the state is scheduled to undergo a health checkup at a hospital in Germany and an eye hospital in London.
He is expected to return home from London on November 13.
Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul
