The Union health ministry and department of pharmaceuticals have reached out to the five domestic manufacturers to prepone some of the production so that additional supplies could begin in June 2021. With the incidence of ‘black fungus’ cases rising across the country and patients facing a shortage of Amphotericin-B drug used to treat the disease, … Read more
A doctor performs Diagnostic Nasal Endoscopy on a patient to detect Black Fungus at government ENT Hospital in Hyderabad. (PTI photo) Black fungus has been declared an epidemic by five states across India. Many people who have recovered from the Covid-19 infection are now suffering from Mucormycosis. Some have lost their eyes. In some cases, … Read more
Warning against loosening guard against Covid-19 pandemic, he further said that people should wear double face masks as the Black Fungus infection might spread from construction sites. (Credit: The Indian Express) With several states reporting a large number of Coronavirus patients suffering from supplementary fungal infection mucormycosis, the central government has asked the state governments … Read more
“Covid-19 is a global menace but why don’t we hear this from other countries and why is mucormycosis seeming like an India story?” The language of Covid-19 is getting as painful and unpredictable as the pandemic itself. With each passing day new hard-to-pronounce drugs and symptoms are getting added to the vocabulary of desperate family … Read more
All government and private health facilities and medical colleges would have have to follow guidelines for screening, diagnosis, management of mucormycosis, Agarwal said. The government on Monday has asked state governments to notify mucormycosis as an epidemic. The mucormycosis fungal infection has been spreading across the country with the number of infections growing in Maharashtra, … Read more
AIIMS chief Randeep Guleria said mucormycosis was a horrible disease and in many cases would need complex surgery to remove the infected part, involving large teams of ENT specialists, brain surgeons and doctors While the total number of mucormycosis infections is not yet known, more than 1,000 such cases have become the priority for the government, … Read more
Patients who had severe Covid-19 infection and were admitted for a long time in ICU are likely to have weak immunity which renders them more vulnerable to the infection. Amidst rising concern over the increasing number of cases of Black Fungus among recovered Coronavirus patients, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan today said that awareness about … Read more
Black fungus in itself is a rare disease, but some groups can be more vulnerable to it. Mucormycosis: Amid an aggressive second wave of coronavirus, now doctors are detecting among COVID-19 patients, mucormycosis or black fungus. Mucormycosis is a rare disease, but it is a serious one, and is being detected in some of the … Read more