Kathmandu, July 10: The government is not immediately taking a burn patient, 25-year-old Ganesh Nepali from Soru Rural Municipality-1, Mugu, to India for further treatment following the doctors’ advice.
According to Prime Minister Balendra Shah’s press and research expert Deepa Dahal, based on the initial advice given by the doctors involved in Nepali’s treatment, all preparations were completed to take the patient to AIIMS hospital in New Delhi, India.
For this, Home Minister Sudhan Gurung himself was on duty throughout the night. Also, the government had arranged air ambulance services to take Nepali to India for further medical treatment.
Before that, it had even been decided that the entire cost of Nepali’s treatment would be borne from the government fund. Nepali is undergoing treatment keeping him on ventilator, and doctors have suggested that transferring him elsewhere in such situation would be even riskier, so the government has decided not to send him to India immediately.
The doctors have suggested taking Nepali to India for further treatment only after his health condition stabilizes. Home Minister Gurung and the members of Prime Minister Shah’s secretariat have been on standby at Bir Hospital since last night, supervising Nepali’s treatment.
It has been reported that Nepali, who was admitted to the emergency ward of Bir Hospital on Thursday afternoon at 3:00pm, has 55 percent burn injury.
A 21-member special team led by Dr. Piyush Dahal, coordinator of the Plastic Surgery Department at Bir Hospital, including Unit Chief Dr. Apar Lamichhane, Dr. Nirman Gyawali from the Critical Care Unit, anesthetist Jaya Prakash Thakur, Prof. Dr. Raviram Shrestha, and nursing staff, has been involved in the treatment of Nepali.
