Prime Minister (PM) and CPN Chairman KP Sharma Oli has briefed the party's secretariat that he needs regular dialysis for kidney problems.
Oli, who had convened the secretariat meeting at his official residence Saturday after being discharged from Grande Hospital Thursday evening, told the party leaders that a second transplant was the alterative for dialysis.
A secretariat member told Setopati that a decision about whether to opt for regular dialysis or go for a transplant will be taken once all the reports arrive. "PM said that dialysis was done twice at Grande after being admitted on Wednesday and it has to be done regularly now onward," the leader added.
Oli also told the party leaders that his health has been deteriorating recently. Oli, who is resting after dialysis, came to the meeting only at noon even as other leaders had assembled for the meeting by 10:30 in the morning. He attended the meeting only for an hour.
CPN Spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha told the media assembled at Baluwatar after the meeting that PM Oli briefed about his health during the meeting. He assured the people that Oli is not critically ill. "All reports have not arrived yet. Further treatment will be decided once the reports arrive," he added.
PM Oli has gone to Singapore twice for treatment in the past few months. PM Oli underwent plasmapheresis at the National University Hospital seven times during his 15-day stay in Singapore after August 22
Plasmapheresis is a term used to refer to a broad range of procedures through which blood components are filtered outside the body. PM Oli's secretariat or doctors did not provide comprehensive details of his health and treatment in Singapore but it is likely that the procedure was done on PM Oli, who had a kidney transplant 12 years ago, to remove antibodies for immunosuppression.
PM Oli had left for Singapore on August 22 just 10 days after a nine-day stay at the hospital there.
