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PM Oli undergoing second kidney transplant at TUTH

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KATHMANDU: The doctors at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj have started kidney transplant surgery on Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

The PM was admitted to the hospital in preparation for the transplant, on Monday evening. Meanwhile, the hospital Executive Director Dr Prem Krishna Khadga informed the mediapersons that the Prime Minister has been taken to the operatation theatre. The PM press advisor Surya Thapa was quoted in Rastriya Samachar Samiti as saying that Prime Minister Oli was taken to the operation theatre at 10:00 am. A six-member TUTH team and doctors specialising in anaesthesia and critical care medicine will perform the necessary procedures.

Two doctors from India — a physician and a surgeon — have also been invited.

One of them is Anant Kumar, the chairman of Uro-Oncology, Robotic and Kidney Transplantation, Max Hospital, New Delhi. The invited doctors will stay on standby to handle any emergency situation during the transplant process carried out by the medical team from TU Teaching Hospital.

The surgery will take about four to five hours, according to Prem Raj Gyawali, urology and kidney transplant surgeon, who is leading the medical team performing the surgery on the PM. The PM kin is donating one of their kidneys to the Prime Minister. This is the second time the PM is undergoing a kidney transplant.

He had undergone a renal transplant 12 years ago in Apollo Hospital, India. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan have extended their wishes for their counterpart quick recovery. Likewise, President Bidya Devi Bhandari, co-chairperson of ruling party Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, among others, have wished for the PM successful transplant and speedy recovery. PM to undergo renal transplant surgery today The post PM Oli undergoing second kidney transplant at TUTH appeared first on The Himalayan Times.




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