Nepal's prime minister in hospital to get kidney transplant
The Associated Press | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 2 months AGO
FILE- In this April 6, 2018 file photo, Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli arrives for the inaugural ceremony of the India-Nepal business forum in New Delhi, India. Nepal's popular communist prime minister is in the hospital awaiting his second kidney transplant after months of illness. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's popular communist prime minister is in the hospital awaiting his second kidney transplant after months of illness.
Khadga Prasad Oli, 69, was admitted to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu on Monday night. He said in a video message to citizens the surgery will be done on Wednesday.
Local media say a relative is donating a kidney to Oli. Nepal's laws require a donor and recipient to be related and for no monetary transaction to be involved.
Oli has long suffered from kidney illness and has made several trips to India and Thailand for treatment.
He underwent his first kidney transplant in 2007 in New Delhi.
Oli became prime minister in 2018 after the Communist alliance swept parliamentary elections. He was prime minister in 2015 also and has been elected to parliament four times.
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