Ganga Maya transferred to Gangalal

KATHMANDU, Feb 19: Ganga Maya, widow of the late Nanda Prasad Adhikari, has been referred to Sahid Gangalal National Heart Center (SGNHC) after she suffered from deep vein thrombosis.

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Doctors at the Bir Hospital, where Ganga Maya had been receiving treatment for about last three years, said that medicines stopped working on her, so that they have referred her to SGNHC on Wednesday for surgical intervention.

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is the formation of a blood clot (thrombus) within a deep vein, mostly in the legs. Other signs may include pain, swelling, redness, warmness and inflamed superficial veins in DVT. "We have referred her to SGNHC for surgical intervention," Dr Manoj Shah of the Bir Hospital, who is tasked to provide medical care to Ganga Maya, said. He informed that blood clots have formed in both of her legs and medicines given to make her blood thin failed to melt the clots.

According to Dr Shah, doctors at the Bir Hospital sent her to SGNHC to avoid the risk of pulmonary embolism, potentially life-threatening complication which is caused by the detachment of the clot that travels to the lungs."They have many specialists, and better facilities than the Bir Hospital, so we referred her there," he added. He informed that her remaining bedridden for a long time caused the problem. "She did not move for a long time and has suffered from DVT and depression," Dr Shah added. She is currently receiving treatment at the intensive care unit (ICU) of SGNHC.

Ganga Maya had been staying at Bir hospital even after she ended her yearlong hunger strike, last year. Her husband Nanda Prasad died on September 22, 2014 in the course of his fast-unto-death. His body is still at the morgue of the central police forensic laboratory at Maharajgunj.

Demanding action against those responsible for the death of her son Krishna Prasad, she staged hunger strike for 360 days, which had ended following a five-point deal with the government. Ganga Maya's son Krishna Prasad was murdered in Chitwan in June 2004 by Maoist insurgents accusing him of being an informant of the police.