KATHMANDU: Prime Minister (PM) KP Oli’s health condition is stable, doctors involved in PM Oli’s kidney transplant surgery have said.
Executive Director of the hospital Dr Prem Krishna Khadka said that the health condition of PM Oli and Samikshya Sangraula, who donated one of her kidneys to the former, is stable.
“Health condition of both PM Oli and Samikshya are stable,” Dr Khadka informed journalists at the Maharajgunj-based Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital on Wednesday.
According to the doctors, PM Oli’s kidneys have started functioning well after undergoing a kidney transplant.
Likewise, according to Dr Arun Sayami, who was also involved in the transplant, informed that PM Oli will have to stay at the hospital for a week.
He said the transplanted kidney has begun to function.
Prime Minister KP Oli, who underwent successful kidney transplantation for the second time on Wednesday, has been transferred to the ICU at the TUTH.
A team of doctors led by Dr Prem Raj Gyawali, a consultant urologist and kidney transplant surgeon at the hospital, successfully performed a second kidney transplant on Prime Minister Oli on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, PM Oli urinated around 500ml after 15 minutes of the completion of the surgery, Dr Gyawali told Khabarhub.
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, were also in the team.
Samiksha of Jhapa had donated one of her kidneys to PM Oli. She has been transferred to the Post Operation Ward.
PM Oli was admitted to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in Kathmandu on Monday evening for his second kidney transplant procedure.
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