Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 7 (ANI): Uttarakhand's Dehradun district on Sunday reported 20 new cases of black fungus and the death of three patients during treatment.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday said that Maharashtra needs to tell the Centre that mucormycosis patients in the Marathwada region of the state are dying due to the shortage of medicine required in its treatment. Justices R V Ghuge and B U Debadwar of the high court s Aurangabad bench was informedthat patients in Marathwada were being under-treated as there is a shortage in the supply of Amphotericin B, a drug used in the treatment of mucormycosis or black fungus infection. The bench was hearing petitions pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic. Advocate Satyajit Bora, appointed to assist the court, argued that patients are being administered one to two injections per day as against the requirement of four to five injections per patient per day.
The Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital (MYH) in the Madhya Pradesh s industrial hub Indore has been treating a number of black fungus patients not only from here, but also from various other districts.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 1 (ANI): As many as 1,292 people are undergoing treatment for black fungus (Mucormycosis) in Karnataka, informed the state health department on Tuesday.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 31 (ANI): A total of 1,250 black fungus (Mucormycosis) cases have been reported in Karnataka so far, informed the state health department.