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Bangladesh reports first suspected black fungus death
Staff Correspondent | banglanews24.com
The 65-year-old man breathed his last at BIRDEM Hospital while undergoing treatment three days ago.
He was tested positive for Covid-19 one month ago and was admitted to the hospital with post-Covid complications, said Professor M Delwar Hossain, head of Respiratory Medicine Department of BIRDEM Hospital.
Another patient with black fungus is undergoing treatment at the same hospital.
Earlier, Bangladesh reported two cases of black fungus or mucormycosis in patients who have recovered from Covid-19.
Mucormycosis or black fungus is a fungal infection, which is rare but can be fatal. In 50 percent of the cases, this fungal infection causes death.
Bangladesh reports first suspected black fungus death
Sun Online Desk
A suspected black fungus patient died at a hospital in the capital.
The 65-year-old man breathed his last at BIRDEM Hospital while undergoing treatment three days ago.
He was tested positive for Covid-19 one month ago and was admitted to the hospital with post-Covid complications, said Professor M Delwar Hossain, head of Respiratory Medicine Department of BIRDEM Hospital.
Another patient with black fungus is undergoing treatment at the same hospital.
Earlier, Bangladesh reported two cases of black fungus or mucormycosis in patients who have recovered from Covid-19.
Mucormycosis or black fungus is a fungal infection, which is rare but can be fatal. In 50 percent of the cases, this fungal infection causes death.
Medical students vaccinated with Chinese vaccine The New Nation 26 May 2021
Ananya Salam Samata, a fifth-year student at Dhaka Medical College, receives the first dose of Sinopharm\ s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday.
News Desk :
Bangladesh has started vaccination with Sinopharm COVID-19 jabs gifted by China. Three students of Dhaka Medical College (DMC) were injected the first dose of Sinopharm vaccine on Tuesday on experimental basis. Later, 257 students of DMC will be given the first dose of the vaccine.
The first vaccine recipient was Ananya Salam Samata, a student of Dhaka Medical College.
Medical students at other colleges around the country will start receiving the vaccine after ten days.
Steps underway to tackle black fungus: Health Minister
UNB
25th May, 2021 05:57:42
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday said necessary steps are being taken to deal with black fungus and urged all to not be scared of the disease as it has not spread that much in Bangladesh.
“A few cases of black fungus have been detected in the country along with the Indian variant of Covid-19. But there’s no need to panic over the disease as it hasn’t spread that much,” the minister said while inaugurating a vaccination programme at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Pharmaceutical companies have been asked to increase the production of medicines that are used to treat black fungus infection, he said, adding that the department concerned has been instructed about the treatment of the disease.