Nepal

Doctors are providing best possible medical care to Sita Dahal, wife of Communist Party Nepal (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, according to medical staff at Mediciti hospital.

She was rushed to the hospital on Saturday. Now she has been put on non-evasive ventilator. 

“We are giving supplementary oxygen to her as her saturation is fluctuating,” a medical staff doctor, who did not want to be quoted by name, told NepalMinute.com

She has been suffering from Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a kind of parkinsons, in addition to diabetes and high blood pressure.

According to National Health Service, Britain, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy is a rare neurological condition that can cause problems with balance, movement, vision, speech and swallowing. It's caused by increasing numbers of brain cells becoming damaged over time.

As per National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) causes slow eye movements, trouble controlling eyelids, prolonged or infrequent blinking, and inability to maintain eye contact during a conversation, slowness of thought, stiffness, movement difficulties and rigidity of muscles etc. 

She was admitted at the hospital last month too. But she was discharged on day-16 after her conditon improved.

Sita started complaining of insomnia after the death of her son Prakash Dahal in November 2017. 

In 2018, she was flown to Singapore and the United States for medical treatment.