Potassium Panic: A Desperate Bid for Attention? The latest twist in Sonam Wangchuk's high stakes hunger strike has all the hallmarks of a manufactured crisis.
At its core lies a dispute over the activist's potassium levels, with his personal physician, Dr Nitin Dighe, questioning the hospital's findings and alleging a lack of transparency in Wangchuk's medical care.
The situation began to take on a surreal quality when Dr Dighe disputed the hospital's claim that Wangchuk's potassium levels had dropped. According to Dighe, the activist's potassium count was normal at 4.