Dhaka: The medical board, formed for the treatment of Muktamoni, a girl who was suffering from rare disease which caused in a malignant growth on her right arm, decided to conduct another surgery on 12 August.

Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Burn and Plastic Surgery unit chief Professor Dr Abul Kalam and the unit’s co-ordinator Dr Shamanta Lal Sen confirmed the date to reporters on Tuesday.

Earlier, in the morning, the 13-member medical board  studied the biopsy report of Muktamoni and fixed 12 August for conducting second surgery on Muktamoni’s infected hand.

Dr Shamanta Lal Sen said, the biopsy report primarily shows presence of tumor in Muktamoni’s blood vessel. Medical board will discuss about its further treatment procedures today.

Earlier, on 5 August, doctors collected biopsy samples from Muktamoni’s hand to determine her disease and the further treatment procedure for the cure.

‘We have collected sample from her right hand,’ Dr M Mahbubur Rahman of Surgery Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) said.

Muktamoni, a 10-year-old girl of Kamarbaisa village in Satkhira sadar upazila, 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 but she was brought here last week, said Dr Rahman.

According to her father Ibrahim, a grocery shop owner of Kamarbaisa village in Sadar upazila, Muktamoni and her twin sister Hiramoni were a pair of healthy baby girls at birth.

However, when Muktamoni was about 18-month-old, a wart appeared on her right arm.