Country’s first Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis patient under treatment at DMCH

Abul Bajander, 25, suffering from a rare disease took admission at the Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College Saturday.
Bajander, from Saral, Paikgachha, Khula, is the country’s first detected ‘Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis’ patient, the burn unit’s assistant registrar Dr Gobinda Biswas told New Age.
Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis is among ‘the world’s rarest diseases, he said.
Amena Begum, his mother said  that warts began to grow on Bajander’s palm since he was  15.
Later, she said, the warts came up in the other parts of his hands and legs exposed to sun.
No efforts would be spared to test his condition in laboratories, said the physician.
Indonesia  and Rumania, where the first two patients were detected in 2007, fondly called them ‘Tree Man’ as their   hands,  feet, resembled barks and roots of trees, said Gobinda.
Bajander has been provided an isolated cabin free of cost, he said.
The disease caused by ‘human papilloma virus’ infection exposes patients to the risks of skin cancer, he said.
In medical term the virus   is called HPV infection, he said.
At the outset,  the warts were tiny but within two or three years Abul Bajnder was unable to use his hands, said his mother.
Walking causing him  excruciating pains, she said.
His wife or mother has to feed him as he can’t do it himself.
He needs their help in all bathroom activities.
Abul Bajnder married five years ago and has a three-year-old daughter.
‘Carrying my over weight hands causes terrible pain for which I can’t do anything, said Abul Bajnder.
‘I even cannot hug my daughter,’ he said though he earned his living by pulling rickshaw-van only 10 years back. ‘Even if a fly sits on the warts I feel severe pain,’ he said.
He recalled that his problem began since he pulled his rickshaw-van through deep  water caused by heavy rains for several days.
Initially, he said, he consulted  local homeopaths for the tiny warts on his palms.
But, he said, when his  condition began to deteriorate  he visited India several times after he married.
He said he could not afford to undergo surgery as the Indian doctors advised him.
Burn unit adviser Samanta Lal Sen said a medical board would be formed today to attend to the new patient’s condition.

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