The CPN (Maoist Centre) Deputy General Secretary Barshaman Pun has been admitted to a hospital in Kathmandu for treatment of jaundice.

Pun, who had reached Rolpa two days ago, was airlifted to Kathmandu through a chopper and admitted to the Lalitpur-based Sumeru Hospital after his health condition worsened.

The Maoist Centre leader had reached his constituency by road to distribute clothes to the needy people in Runtigadhi Rural Municipality.

Pun had returned to Kathmandu on December 20 after receiving his follow-up treatment at Shenzhen-based Third People’s Hospital in China. Pun had left for treatment in China after his health condition worsened during the election rush in November.

Pun, who is also former finance and energy minister, has been suffering from hereditary hyperbilirubinemia, a kind of jaundice. The disease is called Crigler-Najjar Syndrome Type 2.