Doctors looking after former Nepal Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala today said his condition is improving and he will be discharged from hospital this evening.

According to them, the oxygen level in his blood has increased.

Koirala was rushed to the Sahid Gangalal Heart Centre in Bansbari on Sunday evening after the haemoglobin level in his blood dropped and he complained of difficulty in breathing.

A chronic patient of pulmonary diseases, Koirala has been suffering from chest and urinary tract infection recently. He was bedridden for months.

Meanwhile, UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal is due to visit the octogenarian leader in the hospital today, the Kantipur reported. (ANI)