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Dalai Lama treated for pinched nerve

By Lobsang Wangyal | Tibet Sun

The Dalai Lama smiles during a conference themed ‘World Peace and Heritage’ at the India Islamic cultural centre in New Delhi, 18 January 2009. He was treated for pinched nerve at Apollo hospital in Delhi, 2 February 2009.File photo/Reuters/B Mathur/India

The Dalai Lama was taken to a hospital in Delhi for treatment for a pinched nerve, according to his secretary.

“His Holiness suffered from pinched nerve in one of his arms,” secretary Tenzin Taklha told Tibet Sun.

“The treatment was just finished. There is nothing serious,” Taklha said at 6.49 p.m. India time from outside the hospital.

The Dalai Lama was taken to Apollo hospital for the treatment this morning from Dharamshala, in northern India.

He will return to the hill-top town tomorrow according to Taklha.

The Dalai lama will be in Bylakuppe, a Tibetan settlement in south India during Losar, Tibetan New Year, later this month.

According to Reuters, he also has plans to visit Germany and Italy beginning 8 February.

He was rushed to a hospital in Mumbai in August last year after he complained of abdominal pain. Two months later he underwent a successful gallstones surgery at a hospital in Delhi.

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