President discharged from Army hospital

New Delhi:President Pranab Mukherjee was on Friday discharged from the Army’s Research and Refer-ral hospital here following his coronary angioplasty and will be meeting Bangla-deshi President Abdul Hamid on Friday evening.
Hospital sources said that the President, who turned 79 on December 11, has been discharged after he recovered fully. Mukher-jee will be meeting Hamid, who is on a six day India visit, at Rashtrapati Bhavan and will host a banquet in his honor.
It is the first-ever visit by a ceremonial Head of Bangladesh to India. The Army hospital doctors, who attended to the President and installed a coronary stent in his artery to remove a blockage in his heart, had recommended that Mukhe-rjee should remain hospita-lized for some more days.
The coronary angio-plasty was necessitated as doctors detected a blockage in Mukherjee’s heart on December 13 after he was admitted there with stomach problems and related ailments. (PTI)