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Hurt lawmaker flown to Delhi

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KATHMANDU, Aug 14: UCPN (Maoist) Lawmaker Ram Kumari Yadav who was critically injured after a fire in her kitchen on Friday was flown to New Delhi, India, on Saturday afternoon on an air ambulance for treatment at Safdarjung Hospital.



She sustained severe burn injuries due after a fire triggered by leakage of cooking gas cylinder.



As per the request letter sent by chief of the party´s foreign affairs department Krishna Bahadur Mahara to the Indian embassy in Kathmandu, the embassy facilitated her travel to India, spokesperson for the embassy Apoorva Srivastav said.



Through the letter, the party requested the Indian side to help in arranging necessary security support for Yadav and four people accompanying her and also to support her admission to the hospital.



Mahara has also said in the letter that the request has been made after doctors in Kathmandu referred her to in soem better equipped hospital in India immediately.



Srivastav informed that she will be treated at Safdarjung hospital, which has the best burn ward in the whole of Asia. She also said that Professor R P Narayan of the hospital will attend to Yadav.



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