BBC
ON Saturday morning, Dr Akshay Nair, a Mumbai-based eye surgeon, was waiting to operate on a 25-year-old woman who had recovered from a bout of Covid-19 three weeks ago.
Inside the surgery, an ear, nose and throat specialist was already at work on the patient, a diabetic.
He had inserted a tube in her nose and was removing tissues infected with mucormycosis, a rare but dangerous fungal infection. This aggressive infection affects the nose, eye, and sometimes the brain.
After his colleague finished, Dr Nair would carry out a three-hour procedure to remove the patient’s eye.
“I will be removing her eye to save her life. That’s how this disease works,” Dr Nair told me.
Mumbaikars experience rain, strong winds in different parts of city
Mirror Online / Updated: Feb 18, 2021, 21:17 IST
As the sun set on Thursday, different parts of Mumbai,
Navi Mumbai and
Thane experienced strong winds accompanied with
rain. As per a release from India Meteorological Department (IMD), rain/thunder showers in the city are very likely today (February 18).
According to IMD s forecast, it is also very likely that Thane district will experience thunderstorms with lightning. Badlapur,
Ambernath, Ulhasnagar and parts of Kalyan-Dombivli also reported a power cut due to the rains. Raigad s Kamothe area also reported power cut right after the drizzles hit the area.