KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is undergoing a second kidney transplantation at TU Teaching Hospital today.
All the preparations have been completed for the renal transplantation on Prime Minister Oli, according to a hospital source.
A team of 15 to 20 doctors led by Dr Prem Raj Gyawali, a consultant urologist and kidney transplant surgeon at the hospital, will perform a kidney transplant on Oli at 9 am.
“Oli is being administered necessary medicine amidst medical tests under the vigil of medical experts. He underwent regular dialysis before the major surgery while the other lab tests are underway,” said Dr Gyawali.
Two other doctors, including Dr Ananta Kumar, a senior transplant surgeon at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, who performed a transplant on Oli in 2007, arrived in Kathmandu Tuesday for backup.
Oli was admitted to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu on Monday evening for his second kidney transplant procedure.
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.
Samiksha Sangraula of Jhapa is donating one of her kidneys to Oli this time.
Earlier, Oli had undergone his first kidney transplant in 2007 at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi.
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