Muktamoni happy after ‘successful’ surgery

Muktamoni is happy that her abnormally swelled right arm has come down to half its size after doctors removed a three-kilogramme tumour from it.

“I am feeling well than before,” an elated Muktamoni told her father Ibrahim, as the latter described to The Daily Star. She was doing apparently well.

A week after doctors found a tumour in an artery of her arm, Muktamoni yesterday underwent a successful surgery at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).

The 12-year-old girl, who is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, took soup, orange, lemon juice and egg and tea this afternoon, Ibrahim said.

There is no restriction over her meals, Samanta Lal Sen, coordinator of DMCH's Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit, told The Daily Star. “She is feeling well than before.”

It is expected that Muktamoni will stay in the hospital for six more months and undergo further surgery. She was admitted to the hospital on July 11.