Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli has been discharged from the hospital Friday evening.
Oli, who had a second kidney transplant at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) on March 4, has returned to his residence in Baluwatar after 12 days.
He waved to the shutterbugs on his discharge but did not give any comment to the assembled media.
Doctors have said his health is like that of other patients who have kidney transplant. "We have kept a pipe in his abdomen," head of the urology department at the hospital Dr Uttam Kumar Sharma told Setopati. "We will keep him under observation even in Baluwatar. We will remove that pipe if all the parameters turn normal."
An isolation ward has been prepared for him in Baluwatar to ensure that he does not get infection.
Ministers and other CPN leaders had reached the TUTH for his discharge.
Oli had a kidney transplant at the TUTH on March 4. 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.
