3100 junior doctors and senior residents to boycott COVID and non-COVID elective duties
Some 3,100 junior doctors and senior resident doctors would boycott COVID and non-COVID elective duties at Telangana government teaching and allied hospitals from 9 a.m. of Wednesday as their demands were not addressed, including State government’s ex-gratia for health care workers (HCWs) who lost life in line of duty.
Representatives of Telangana Junior Doctors Association (TJUDA), and Telangana Senior Resident Doctors Association (TSRDA) announced the decision to media on Tuesday.
The medical services which do not need emergency attention are called as elective duties such as Out-Patient services, treatment for closed fractures. They would continue to attend COVID ICU and critical care duties, and non-COVID emergencies.
The Telangana government has declared fungal infection mucormycosis as a notifiable disease under Epidemic Diseases Act 1897.All the government and private health facilities shall follow guidelines for screening, diagnosis and management of .
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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)
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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.