Nepali Cong leader admitted to Mumbai hospital

February 17, 2023 00:50

Senior Nepali Congress leader Chandra Bhandari/Facebook

Senior Nepali Congress leader Chandra Bhandari, who suffered severe burns following a cylinder gas explosion at his residence, was on Thursday airlifted to Mumbai for further medical treatment, party sources said.

Bhandari (61), admitted in the night at the National Burns Centre at Airoli in Navi Mumbai, a satellite town of India's financial capital, has suffered 35 per cent burn injuries and put on a ventilator, but his condition is "stable" and he will undergo an operation on Friday, doctors treating him said.

The politician and his mother suffered burn injuries on Wednesday night when a cooking gas cylinder exploded at the lawmaker's residence.

While Bhandari's mother Harikala Adhikari died on Thursday while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Kathmandu, Bhandari was flown to Mumbai in an air ambulance for further treatment, said the party sources.

Nepalese doctors attending to the leader recommended taking him to a health institution with better medical facilities abroad as his health condition deteriorated, Bhuwan Bhusal, Bhandari's personal secretary, was quoted as saying in a report by the Kathmandu Post. -- PTI

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