Staff Reporter :
The doctors of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) will conduct a surgery on 12-year-old girl Muktamoni on Saturday. The biopsy results confirmed presence of a tumor in her blood vessels in the right hand.
A 13-member medical board held a meeting at 11am on Tuesday to decide the course of Muktamoni’s treatment after receiving her biopsy report on Monday evening.
The medical board members will be present during the surgery.
“We found tumours in our biopsy test, a disease called hemangioma,” said Dr Samanta Lal Sen, National Coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH. “Her situation is critical and we will primarily focus not to amputate her affected hand,” Dr Sen said.
Hemangiomas are noncancerous growths of blood vessels that usually grow for a period of time before subsiding without treatment.
It may first appear on the skin as a red birthmark and gradually protrude upward.
Some hemangiomas may cause pain by opening up and bleeding. The growths may disfigure patient depending on their size and location.
On Saturday, DMCH doctors conducted the biopsy on Muktamoni, who has been afflicted by the disease mainly in her right hand, the condition leading to her hand swelling up like a bee hive. But it all started a long ago.
When Muktamoni was three years old, her parents observed a small swelling in her chest. After a few days, the marble-like protrusions appeared underneath her left armpit. Thus began a round of treatment that has continued till this very day.
First, Ibrahim took his daughter to local doctors but no improvement was seen.
He said she always feels unbearable pain in the affected hand which is infested with parasitic worms.
“We gave her homeopathy treatment also for nearly one and a half years, but it did not work,” he said.
