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By Gopal Sharma<\/p>\n

KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s President Ram Chandra Paudel was flown on Wednesday to the Indian capital of New Delhi to seek advanced treatment for chest and abdominal problems at a premier government hospital, officials said.<\/p>\n

Vice President Ram Sahaya Yadav will stand in for Paudel while he is away, presidential spokesperson Sagar Acharya said.<\/p>\n

Paudel, 78, spent five days this month in the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in the Nepali capital of Kathmandu, after complaining of a chest problem.<\/p>\n

He was taken to the hospital again on Tuesday with the same problem.<\/p>\n

This time, Nepali doctors and family members decided he should be sent to the state-run All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), for “better and advanced treatment”, Baikuntha Thapaliya, a spokesperson for the Nepali hospital, told Reuters.<\/p>\n

One of Paudel’s aides, Kiran Pokhrel, said he was taken to India by an air ambulance on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Paudel, a senior leader of the Nepali Congress party, was elected as the Himalayan nation’s third president in March amid a bitter crisis in the then-ruling coalition. <\/p>\n

The coalition split after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, a former Maoist rebel leader, supported Paudel – an opposition candidate – for the post.<\/p>\n

His election led to the formation of a new coalition between Dahal’s Maoist Centre party and the centrist Nepali Congress party.<\/p>\n

Paudel had been treated for chest and abdomen problems in recent years.<\/p>\n

Nepalis, including politicians, often travel to India for medical treatment as their southern neighbour can offer better medical facilities than Nepal.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Gopal Sharma; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)<\/p>\n

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