Dhaka: The condition of Muktamoni, a 12-year-old girl who was suffering from rare disease which caused in a malignant growth on her right arm, improved as the physicians held dressing over her surgery wound on Wednesday morning.

Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s Burn Unit chief Professor Dr Abul Kalam and coordinator Dr Shamonta Lal Sen conducted the dressing from 9:00am to 10:00am.

Shamonto Lal Sen said, blood was inserted to Muktamoni’s body during the dressing. She is now in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the unit. Muktamoni’s condition is improving, said the physician.

Earlier, on 12 August, first surgical operation on Muktamoni was carried out successfully DMCH without amputating her right hand.

On 8 August, the medical board decided to conduct another surgery on 12 August after examining her biopsy report.

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.