Road, transport and bridges minister and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader. -- UNB photo

Road, transport and bridges minister and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader left Dhaka for Singapore on Wednesday morning for a routine health check-up.

According to the minister’s office, Quader left Dhaka on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at about 8:45am.

He was greeted at the airport by officials of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh.

Barrister Biplab Barua, Nizam Uddin Hazari and secretary of Road Transport and bridges ABM Amin Ullah Nuri were also present at the airport.

‘He is expected to return to Dhaka on August 11 after a health check-up at Mount Elizabeth Hospital,’ said Shaikh Walid Faiej, information and public relations officer at the Bridges Division.