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MUMBAI: While treatment of mucormycosis—the black fungus affecting a section of Covid-recovered patients—has become synonymous with a 25-day course of an anti-fungal medication that costs more than Rs 30,000 daily, its shortage has forced city doctors to manage most with a medicine that costs Rs 350 or less a day.
“The drug, liposomal amphotericin B, has been in short supply for 9 days, prompting us to use the conventional amphotericin B that costs a fraction but gives equal results,” said ENT surgeon Dr Milind Navalakhe from Global Hospital, which has treated more than 35 patients in the past 60 days.
‘New amphotericin is Rolls Royce of mucor med but older one works too’