President and Mrs George Abela left Malta this afternoon to visit Maltese patients in London hospitals.

Dr and Mrs Abela will be staying with the Franciscan nuns to have the opportunity to live close to the patients and their relatives.

They will be visiting Great Ormond Street Hospital, the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, the Royal Marsden Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital and Kings College Hospital.

They will also be visiting patients staying at the Puttinu apartments in Sutton and other congregrations who provide hospice for Maltese patients.

President and Mrs Abela return to Malta on Wednesday.

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