Nepal PM Koirala to leaves for US for health check-up

Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala will leave for the US tonight for a thorough health check-up, nearly five years after a surgery for tongue cancer.
Doctors have advised 74-year-old Koirala to undergo a thorough check-up after they detected patches on his lungs during a medical examination at a hospital here.
A CT-scan found a scar on the Prime Minister's lungs, according to his personal doctor Kabir Nath Yogi.
Koirala, suffering from lung infection for some time, is also under medication for Bronchitis.
He visits New York every year for a follow-up after he had a surgery for tongue cancer nearly five years ago.

According to his chief secretary Basanta Gautam, the Prime Minister will be admitted to New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre for the check-up.