President returns home after medical check-up in London

President Mohammed Shahabuddin has returned to Dhaka this morning (18 May) after completion of his follow-up treatment and health examinations in London.

A significant block was detected in the heart of the president during a routine medical check-up in the United Kingdom, prompting immediate angioplasty and placement of a stent.

The stent implantation procedure was performed at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge on Tuesday afternoon.

Quoting the president’s personal physician Colonel Dr AKM Faizul Haque, who is accompanying him in the UK, his press secretary Sarwar Alam told UNB that Shahabuddin underwent an angiogram under the supervision of interventional cardiologist Dr Stephen Holley at the hospital.

In October 2023, President Mohammed Shahabuddin underwent open-heart surgery at the National University Hospital (NUH) in Singapore.

Since then, he has been receiving follow-up treatment for heart-related complications at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge.

Royal Papworth Hospital is internationally renowned for its advanced cardiac treatment and research and is recognised as one of the institutions involved in the world’s first successful heart transplant procedures.

The president had left Dhaka for London on 9 May for health examinations.