KATHMANDU: All the preparations have been done for a second renal transplant on Prime Minister KP Oli.
Medical tests including blood pressure, condition of heart and body temperature have been conducted. He has been kept without food for 12 hours.
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. It will take around six hours to perform the renal transplant.
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.
Dr Ananta Kumar has been active in kidney transplantation for the last 35 years.
It is learnt that he already successfully performed over 35 kidney transplants on people.
MBBS from King George’s Medical University Lucknow, MS, MCH (Urology) from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh and BND (Urology), Dr Ananta is in Kathmandu to assist in the kidney transplantation.
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