A nine-member medical board for the treatment of Muktamoni, a 10-year-old girl of Satkhira with mysterious disease, reviewed the diagnosis reports yesterday. The girl is now undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) and the doctors decided that she was not fit yet for surgery.
"The surgery would require satisfactory physical condition with normal platelet level in blood cell," said Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of the burn unit. The girl had fever and there was bleeding from her hand on Wednesday.
However, she is cured from fever and the doctors donated her blood. In the meantime, the platelet level of her blood cell has reduced to such a low that physician could not do the biopsy," said Dr M Mahbubur Rahman of Surgery Department of DMCH.
"We would monitor the platelet improvement till Friday and take the next decision. Then the board would sit again after having all the reports," he said, adding, "She is also being given a specialized diet from the hospital." The girl was admitted to the hospital on July 11 with a malignant growth on her right arm. The disease was apparent when she was around only one and a half years old.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken responsibility of the treatment of Muktamoni. Later, the health minister visited the kid at DMCH and assured all kind support. According to the girl's father Ibrahim, Muktamoni and her twin sister Hiramoni was a pair of healthy baby girls at birth. However, when Muktamoni was about 18-month-old, a wart appe-ared on her right arm.
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