Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s wife Sita Dahal passed away on Wednesday. She was 69.

Sita Dahal, who is also an adviser to the CPN (Maoist Centre), died on Wednesday morning while undergoing treatment at Norvic Hospital in Thapathali.

Sita, who was suffering from Progressive Supranuclear Palsy along with Parkinsonism, Diabetes Mellitus-II and Hypertension for a long time, was taken to the hospital on Wednesday morning following complications in her health condition.

According to Prime Minister Dahal’s personal physician Professor Dr Yuvraj Sharma, Sita Dahal suffered from cardiac arrest at 8 am on Wednesday.

“Despite resuscitation, she could not be revived and [was] declared dead at 8:33am,” read a statement signed by Sharma.

Sita had undergone treatment in India in 2021. She had also received treatment at the Baltimore-based John Hopkins Hospital in the United States of America in 2020 and prior to that she was also taken to Singapore for treatment in June 2018.

According to Prime Minister Dahal’s secretariat, Sita Dahal’s body will be kept at the party central office Parisdanda, Koteshwar from 11 am to 1 pm to pay the final tributes. According to the secretariat, the funeral rites will be held at Pashupati Aryaghat at 2 pm.