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Karnataka asks experts to study cases of mucormycosis and submit report
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There have been an increasing cases of ‘black fungus’
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There have been an increasing cases of ‘black fungus’
With an increasing number of ‘black fungus’ or mucormycosis cases being reported in the State, the Health Department has now asked experts to study the incidences and submit a detailed report.
Health and Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar said on Wednesday that the State will chalk out modalities on including this complication in the State’s free treatment protocols based on the experts’ report. “I discussed this with members of our Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on Tuesday and asked them to submit a detailed report within the next two-three days,” he said.
updated: May 10 2021, 08:13 ist
For 38-year-old Vishwanath (name changed), an autorickshaw driver in the city, surviving Covid-19 should have been cause for celebration. But even before he was discharged, he started to feel an unusual pain in his face and a swelling of his eye.
Doctors now say that he has developed a life-threatening fungal infection called mucormycosis (black fungus) which, if untreated, results in blindness followed by death.
Diabetics at risk
Similar infections had been reported during the first wave last year, But for two weeks now, such cases are being found in larger numbers among Covid-19 survivors with uncontrolled diabetes, they added.