Drugs To Treat Black Fungus Can Be Applied Online in Telangana May 20, 2021, 12:16 IST
Despite COVID-19 in the state, Black Fungus cases are also rising day by day. People infected with COVID are afraid to get admitted into hospitals because of a black fungus. Black Fungus infects the recovered COVID patients solely as a result of the steroids, which lower the body s immunity to fight germs and sickness.
Patients and their relatives must apply online to the special committee headed by the Director of Medical Education (DME) Dr K Ramesh Reddy to obtain drugs for the treatment of mucormycosis. Individuals who require Amphotericin B, Posaconazole, or Isavuconazole, all of which are used to treat fungal infections, should contact (ent-mcrm@telangana.gov.in)
Wear masks post Covid recovery to avoid contracting black fungus : Director of Medical Education
The Director added that ENT departments in all medical colleges will operate as usual to treat these cases of Mucormycosis.
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The fungal infection occurs only in Covid-19 patients who are diabetic, and it is a rare disease and not infectious. (File Photo) By Express News Service
HYDERABAD: The medicine availability for Mucormycosis (populary known as black fungus), a fungal infection mostly seen in Covid-19 survivors, will be regulated in the next two days, said the Director of Medical Education Dr K Ramesh Reddy on Tuesday. He added that the fungal infection occurs only in Covid-19 patients who are diabetic, and it is a rare disease and not infectious.
Experts say the doubling time is a crude estimate of the current rate of spread of the virus. (Picture for representational purpose only)
HYDERABAD: In what could ring alarm bells in the middle of the Covid-19 devastation, the doubling time of positive cases in Telangana started falling from February 23 itself. From 1,646 days in February, it drastically fell to 429 days by March 31.
Despite the clear warning signals, the government ignored the key indicators as doubling time further fell to 119 days by April 10 and down to 36 days by April 30.
Doubling time is the exact number of days required for the cases in an epidemic to double, based on the rate of the cumulative increase in the number of cases. Experts say the doubling time is a crude estimate of the current rate of spread of the virus.
Three deaths not due to oxygen shortage, clarifies hospital
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Top officials check oxygen stock
A day after it was alleged that at least three COVID-19 patients at District Hospital, King Koti, died due to lack of oxygen, top officials from the Health department descended on the hospital on Monday.
Several reports suggested that three to five patients at the government hospital died on Sunday afternoon due to oxygen shortage. However, the hospital superintendent issued a clarification stating the news was incorrect. “The hospital has adequate stock of oxygen. There is a 13KL Liquid Oxygen Tank (LOT) for oxygen storage. We have bulk cylinders for backup. The three patients were on assisted ventilation and in a critical condition,” superintendent Rajendranath stated.