A woman, niece in relation, will donate kidney to Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli.
A source at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) told Setopati that the woman is daughter of Oli's cousin sister. The identity of the woman, however, has not been revealed.
Anjana Ghimire, daughter-in-law in relation, had donated the kidney that was transplanted on Oli 12 years ago in New Delhi. She was just 21 years while donating the kidney. The age of niece who will donate the kidney this time has not been revealed.
Oli will be admitted at the TUTH Monday itself and will have transplant on Wednesday.
He briefed the secretariat meeting on Sunday about his treatment plan.
He had claimed he will take leave of just five days for kidney transplant.
Addressing a training program for CPN cadres of Bagmati province in Kathmandu on Thursday, he stated that he will return to work on the sixth day of surgery. "I will soon have kidney transplant. I will remain in the hospital for just five days and will start work from the sixth day," he said. "Nothing will happen to me for the next 10-15 years."
He claimed that he has been working 17-18 hours a day despite people pointing that he is sick. "I work for 17-18 hours. Illness is nothing. It just happens," Oli said.
Oli, whose transplanted kidney has stopped functioning, is on regular dialysis in recent times. He underwent plasmapheresis seven times in Singapore in August 2019.
Plasmapheresis is a term used to refer to a broad range of procedures through which blood components are filtered outside the body. It was done on PM Oli, who had a kidney transplant 12 years ago, to remove antibodies for immunosuppression.
