ILLAM, Jan. 18 -- Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital senior orthopedic surgeon Dr Govinda KC, who has been staging his 16th hunger strike in Ilam, has been brought to Kathmandu on Thursday night.

Dr KC has been fasting for the last ten days demanding authorities to bring reforms in the country's medical education sector.

Dr KC was brought to Bhadrapur from Ilam on an ambulance and flown to Kathmandu on a Nepal Army helicopter following the deterioration in his health condition.

As of now, Dr KC is receiving medical treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of the TUTH. Doctors involved in the treatment have said that despite feeling pain in his chest and nausea, Dr KC's health condition is stable.

The doctors informed that they are con...