Senior neurosurgeon Dr Upendra Devkota, who is undergoing treatment at the Bansbari-based Neuro Hospital of gall bladder cancer, has been taken to his home district Gorkha on Saturday afternoon.

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Senior neurosurgeon Dr Upendra Devkota, who is undergoing treatment at the Bansbari-based Neuro Hospital of gall bladder cancer, is being taken to his home district Gorkha on Saturday.

Dr Devkota will be flying to Gorkha after he expressed his desire to spend some time at his house in Anppital Pandit. His health condition is stable at the present.

According to a family source, he will spend one-and-a-half hour at his house and will be taken back to Kathmandu.

Before being admitted to the Neuro Hospital, he was undergoing treatment at the King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London.

He is the founder of the first neurological trauma unit in Bir Hospital.

Dr Devkota is also the founder of the National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences, also known as the Neuro Hospital, Bansbari.