CPN (Maoist Centre) deputy general secretary Barsha Man Pun has been discharged from the hospital on Friday after a weeklong treatment of jaundice.

Pun was airlifted to the Lalitpur-based Sumeru City Hospital from Rolpa on Saturday after his health condition worsened.

The doctors attending to leader Pun discharged him from the hospital following an improvement in his health condition, asking the leader to be in close contact with medics.

Doctors have suggested the leader undergo liver transplantation, as he is suffering from acute liver disease. Doctors attending Pun said that now a transplant is the only cure for him, as around 80 percent of his liver has already stopped functioning properly.

Pun, who is also a former finance and energy minister, went to China on December 2 for follow-up treatment at the Shenzhen-based Third People's Hospital and returned to the country on December 20. His health issues—insomnia, skin itching, coughing, lack of appetite and vomiting–were reported to have resolved after treatment.

He has been suffering from hereditary hyper-bilirubinemia, a kind of jaundice, for a long time. The disease is called Crigler-Najjar Syndrome Type 2. His health condition worsened during the election rush in November.

Though liver transplant is available within the country, no decision has been made so far about where to transplant one in Pun.