Dr Bhagawan Koirala has been appointed chairman of the Nepal Medical Council (NMC).
The Cabinet meeting held at the prime minister's official residence in Baluwatar on Sunday has appointed cardiothoracic surgeon Koirala to the post, according to a minister.
Koirala has served as director of the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and that of Shahid Ganga Lal National Heart Center in the past.
The other decisions taken during the Cabinet meeting have yet to be revealed.
Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli, who has been resting after undergoing dialysis at Grande Hospital on Wednesday and Thursday, chaired the meeting for around one and half hours, according to the minister.
Oli had briefed the party's secretariat on Saturday 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 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.
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.
