Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli, who had a second kidney transplant last Wednesday, and the donor Samikshya Sangraula met Wednesday.
Sangraula, niece in relation, met PM Oli at around three in the afternoon becoming the first visitor to visit Oli after the transplant.
PM's press advisor Surya Thapa said Sangraula asked Oli 'How are you uncle?'
Oli in response said he is recovering and thanked her for donating the kidney, according to Thapa.
Doctors say Oli can be discharged by Wednesday evening. Sangraula will also be discharged together with Oli.
Oli had a kidney transplant at the TUTH last Wednesday. A team led by head of the kidney transplant department at the hospital Dr Prem Raj Gyawali carried out the procedure.
This is the second kidney transplant for Oli with the first done at the Apollo Hospital in New Delhi 12 years ago.
Samikshya Sangraula, niece in relation, donated her left kidney to Oli. Anjana Ghimire, daughter-in-law in relation, had donated the kidney that was transplanted on Oli 12 years ago. She was just 21 years while donating the kidney.
Oli now has four kidneys in his body after the second transplant including two of his own, one transplanted 12 years back and the new one, according to Dr Gyawali. "It is risky to take out earlier kidneys as another surgery needs to be performed. We, therefore, leave the previous ones inside the body," he had explained before the transplant.
He said the new kidney is generally kept a little below the old ones in the abdomen and the previous kidneys are not taken out across the globe.
The earlier kidneys are taken out only if they get infected or create some problems, according to him.
Oli was on regular dialysis in recent times after the transplanted kidney stopped functioning. 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.
