Kathmandu Metropolitan City Mayor Balendra Shah has been bereaved of his father, Ram Narayan Shah.

Ram Narayan breathed his last at Civil Hospital in New Baneshwar on Monday.

Earlier, Prime Minister Sushila Karki also visited the hospital.

Shah was an ayurvedic doctor by profession. He worked for years at the Naradevi Ayurveda Hospital before being transferred to the Singhadurbar Vaidyakhana.