President Mohammed Shahabuddin returned home on Monday morning after completing follow-up treatment and health examinations in London.
The president’s Press Secretary Sarwar Alam confirmed his arrival in Dhaka.
During a routine medical check-up in United Kingdom, a significant block was detected in the president’s heart, which prompted an immediate angioplasty and the placement of a stent. The procedure was performed on Tuesday afternoon at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge.
Quoting the president’s personal physician, Colonel Dr AKM Faizul Haque, who accompanied him to UK, Sarwar informed UNB that the president underwent an angiogram under the supervision of interventional cardiologist Dr Stephen Holley at the hospital.
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.
President Shahabuddin previously underwent open-heart surgery at National University Hospital (NUH) in Singapore in October 2023. Since that time, he has been receiving follow-up treatment for heart-related complications at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge.
The president had left Dhaka for London on 9 May to undergo these health examinations.
