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New Delhi: Rare, life-threatening COVID-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs. Pharmacists are warning of a shortage of a crucial drug to treat an invasive fungal infection preying on patients with weakened immune systems and diabetes. An uptick in cases across India of a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in children - also seen in the US and Europe a...

Doctors perform a diagnostic nasal endoscopy (DNE) on a patient to detect black fungus at a hospital in Jabalpur. NEW DELHI: Rare, life-threatening Covid-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs. Pharmacists are warning of a shortage of a crucial drug to treat an invasive fungal infection preying on patients with weakened immune systems and diabetes. ...

Daily Monitor Friday May 21 2021 African migrant day labourers seeking small jobs, wait under a bridge in the Libyan capital Tripoli to be hired by potential employers, on March 6, 2021. PHOTOS/ AFP Summary Locked up in "very difficult conditions", Mohamed remained there until July 2019, when an air strike hit the centre and killed dozens of people.  Like Mohamed, Brahim, who is from Niger, waits daily under a Tripoli bridge, buffeted by the eastern Mediterranean wind and desperate for work. W...

India sees apparent rise in life-threatening Covid-19 complications Some 1,500 patients diagnosed with mucromycosis – or ‘black fungus’ – in Maharashtra about an hour ago An Indian man receives a Covid-19 vaccine shot, inside a modified vaccination centre at Press Club in Kolkata, Eastern India, May 19th 2021. Photograph: Piyal Ashikary/EPA   Rare, life-threatening Covid-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a countr...

Carrying worn tools, they slouch on the pavement waiting for one of the passing cars to stop, before crowding around the potential employer and clamouring for a days work

Rare, Life-Threatening Covid Complications Cause Worry In India Rare, Life-Threatening Covid Complications Cause Worry In India Pharmacists are warning of a shortage of a crucial drug to treat an invasive fungal infection preying on patients with weakened immune systems. Updated: May 20, 2021 5:44 pm IST India has reported more than 25 million Covid cases, with half occurring in the past two months alone. Rare, life-threatening Covid-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creati...

Rare, life-threatening Covid-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs. Pharmacists are warning of a shortage of a crucial drug to treat an invasive fungal infection preying on patients with weakened immune systems. An uptick in cases across India of a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in children -- also seen in the U.S. and Europe at the height of the...

Rare, life-threatening COVID-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs.

Israeli airstrikes continued on Thursday in Gaza, where hospitals are struggling to care for their injured patients. Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd talks with Ely Sok, Doctors Without Borders’ head of mission in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, about the situation with hospitals and health care in Gaza. This article was originally published on WBUR.org. Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in Jerusalem The WHO head for the West Bank and Gaza, Rik Peeperkorn, said that a United Nations convoy was standing by to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza, and bring wounded people out for treatment. "Until there is cease-fire agreed, all parties to the conflict must agree to a humanitarian pause to ensure access into and out of Gaza," Peeperkorn said. Medical situation in Gaza critical The WHO says that Israeli bombing has damaged or destroyed several hospit...