This hospital is our last hope," Shikdar told AFP at Dhaka Medical College Hospital this week. He plays football and hide and seek with his cousins," she told AFP after her son’s case was highlighted in Bangladesh media on the weekend. "In progeria, the ageing process accelerates with time," Abul Kalam, head of the hospital’s burns and plastic surgery unit, told AFP on Monday. We took him to religious healers and herbal doctors, but his condition did not change. "Doctors at the same hospital have also been treating a 26-year-old father dubbed "Tree Man" for the rare and massive bark-like growths on his hands and feet.- AFP

Source: The Nation Bangkok August 09, 2016 05:15 UTC