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UML leader Khanal to fly to New Delhi for treatment today

KathmanduPati June 16, 2021

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KATHMANDU – The CPN (UML) senior leader Jhala Nath Khanal, who is receiving treatment at Norvic International Hospital in Kathmandu for his various health problems, is to be flown to New Delhi in India today noon for further treatment, said Khanal’s personal secretary Krishna Bhattarai. Leader Khanal will be treated at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, he said.

The former Prime Minister has been referred to New Dehli for further treatment in consultation with doctors involved in his treatment and his family, said Somnath Bastola, corporate communications chief of the Hospital.

Khanal, who earlier contracted COVID-19, was admitted to the hospital on June 14 for low hemoglobin counts and respiratory problems.