Bangladesh's 'Tree man' has his hands back

Story highlights

• The 'Tree man' suffered from uncommon situation that left him with growths on his arms
• It took months and quite a few surgical procedures to remoe them.

Bajandar suffered from a uncommon situation that precipitated his arms to sprout tree-like warts. He lived with it for years earlier than starting surgical procedure to take away the growths final February.

Since then he has had 16 procedures to revive his arms, and can bear just a few extra earlier than he's launched from the hospital.

Dr. Samanta Lal Sen, chief plastic surgeon at Dhaka Medical Faculty Hospital, advised CNN Bajandar is in "superb form" now, and may eat and write utilizing his personal arms. The additional procedures, he stated, are extra for "beautification."

A life almost stolen by a curious illness

Bajandar suffered from epidermodysplasia verruciformis, a illness so uncommon there have solely been a handful of reported circumstances world wide. It's brought on by a defect within the immune system which will increase one's susceptibility to HPV, or human papilloma virus.

Lal Sen advised CNN final February that Bajandar first seen the lesions when he was 10. Over time, the growths fully encompassed his arms, stealing his livelihood as a rickshaw driver and making him the topic of worldwide information.

Earlier than the surgical procedure, Bajandra couldn't eat, drink, brush his tooth or take a bathe by himself. The one factor he may do was scratch his neck.

"I need to stay like a standard particular person. I simply need to have the ability to maintain my daughter correctly and hug her," he advised CNN final yr.