Muktamoni, a 12-year-old girl from Satkhira, has died after battling a rare disease called Hemangioma.The girl, who was diagnosed with a tumor developed in her blood vessels on the right hand, breathed her last shortly before 7:00am yesterday at her residence in Dakkhin Kamar Baisha village in Sadar upazila. "Her condition deteriorated for the last few days.
She wanted to have water. His grandmother went to bring water but she passed away," said her grocer father Ibrahim Hossain. Muktamoni's family mourns her death while her mother was found speechless in grief.
Muktamoni was noticed with a tiny red bump on her right arm when she was one and a half years old which eventually grew bigger. For the next four years, the bump grew big hampering her movement.
She was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on July 11 last year and the doctors diagnosed a tumor in her blood vessels due to a disease called hemangioma that made her arm heavier than the rest of her body, which apparently shriveled in comparison.
A team of doctors in Dhaka Medical College Hospital operated her hand for six times. She was sent home on December 22 last year when her condition got better.Her condition worsened over the last few days with infection at the wound in hand and also fever.
Ibrahim said doctors asked Ibrahim to bring his daughter to Dhaka after the Eid, when he contacted Dhaka Medical College Hospital but she succumbed to her illness before that.Muktamoni drew the nation's attention with an abnormally large right arm.
Muktamoni was buried beside the grave of her grandfather at her family graveyard after Zohr prayers following a namaz-e-janaza there, said her father.
Earlier on Saturday, her father said that Muktamoni's condition had been critical for the last few days as her right hand was decomposed completely.
"The infection in her hand has spread all over. Bad odor comes out from her hand when the bandage is pulled off for dressing," he said.Muktamoni was under the observation of Dr Samanta Lal Sen of DMCH.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took charges of her treatment after her story was reported in the media.
---Shaheen Golder, AA Satkhira
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