Review Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal, March 3, 2020: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has admitted to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in Kathmandu for his kidney transplant for second time on Monday. Oli had reached the hospital at around 6:30 pm.
Doctors are preparing to perform a kidney transplant on Oli on Wednesday. This is the second kidney transplant for Prime Minister Oli. The 69-year-old prime minister has long been suffering from kidney ailments.
It is said that one of Oli's nieces Samikshya Sangraula Gyawali, 32, of Charaali, Jhapa is donating a kidney. She had already admitted at the Hospital on Monday. As per the country’s human organ transplantation law, only family members and close relatives can donate organs like kidney.
Oli underwent his first renal transplantation surgery in 2007 at the Apollo Hospital in New Delhi of India after both his kidneys failed. Since then, he has been operating on a single kidney.
The doctors involved in his treatment have reached on the conclusion that a second kidney transplant is needed for Oli as regular dialysis should not be considered a long-term solution for his kidney ailment. It is said that Prime Minister Oli will no longer have to undergo regular dialysis after the transplant is successful.
Though the preparations were made earlier to transplant his kidney, it was put on hold after he had suffered a renal dysfunction. He had undergone appendicitis surgery last November. Following the surgery, he was undergoing regular dialysis for two or three times in a week.
It is said that Dr Prem Raj Gyawali, a consultant urologist and kidney transplant surgeon at the hospital, will perform the surgery. Other expert doctors are also involved in the team.
According to the director at the hospital Dr. Prem Krishna Khadka, a team of doctors including Dr Ananta Kumar, a senior transplant surgeon at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, who had performed a transplant on Oli in 2007, has also been called for backup. Likewise, another doctor, who is considered as expert in internal medicine is also called from India.
