Kathmandu, March 4
The doctors involved in Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s kidney transplantation on Wednesday say the surgery has been over, and the transplant is successful.
It took four hours to complete the surgery, according to Dr Arun Sayami at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital.
A woman in her 20s, who happens to be Oli’s distant relative, had donated her kidney for the leader.
It is Oli’s second kidney transplantation. He had had his first kidney transplanted in 2007 at the Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India. The kidney had stopped functioning properly for the past few months. Hence, he was undergoing dialysis regularly.
Transplanted kidney has begun to function: Hospital
Meanwhile, the hospital issued a press statement, informing Oli’s health condition is static now. “All indicators are positive and the transplanted kidney has begun to function.”
The hospital informs that the donor, Samiksha Sangraula, is also in a static condition.
(Updated at 4:30 pm)
