Nepal PM Oli undergoes successful renal transplant
Mar 05, 2020
Kathmandu (Nepal), Mar 05 (ANI): Nepal Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli successfully underwent his second kidney transplant surgery at a hospital on Wednesday. The 68-year-old prime minister's condition was stable and was kept under medical supervision at a post-operative ward in the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital. A team of doctors, led by Dr Prem Raj Gyawali, a consultant urologist and kidney transplant surgeon performed the transplant, which took five hours to complete. Oli, who is also the chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party, was hospitalised on Monday. He underwent dialysis on Tuesday to remove toxins ahead of the transplant. This was Oli's second kidney transplant. The first was performed in India in 2007, after both his kidneys had failed. Oli also underwent an appendicitis surgery in November last year.
