Muktamoni dies

Muktamoni, a 12-year-old girl who was suffering from a rare disease, died on Wednesday.

She breathed her last at her home in Kamarbaisha village of Satkhira sadar upazila around 8am.

Quoting Muktamoni’s father, Dr. Samanta Lal Sen, Chief Coordinator for Plastic Surgery and Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), confirmed the matter to Jago News. 

He said, Muktamoni returned home on December 22 in 2017 after undergoing treatment at the DMCH for more than five months.

On July 11, 2017, Muktamoni was admitted to the hospital with a malignant growth on her right arm. 

Later Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took the responsibility of Muktamoni’s treatment.

On August 12, 2017 doctors at DMCH removed a 3kg tumour from her arm after a biopsy showed the growth to be in the artery of her hand.

The girl later underwent three more consecutive surgeries on her right arm on August 29, September 5, and October 8, 2017.

According to her father Ibrahim, a grocery shop owner, Muktamoni and her twin sister Hiramoni were a pair of healthy baby girls during their birth but a wart appeared on her right arm when Muktamoni was around 18-month-old.