2 March 2020, Kathmandu
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has been admitted to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) at Maharajgunj on Monday evening for a kidney re-transplantation.
PM Oli greeted journalists and well-wishers present at the hospital premises before entering the hospital though he didn not make any comment.
The prime minister has been undergoing regular dialysis after the kidney that was transplanted some 12 years ago stopped functioning.
Oli had undergone coronary angiography of his heart at the Maharajgunj-based Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Center on February 18.
Doctors opted for re-transplantation after his health report turned out to be normal.
A 32-year-old Samiksha Sangraula Gyawali from Charali Jhapa is donating one of her kidneys to PM Oli this time. Samiksha is Oli’s niece by relation.
Prior to this, Oli had undergone his first kidney transplant in 2007 at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi. Anjana Ghimire, a sister-in-law by relation, had donated her kidney to Oli then.
