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Mumbai, India – For 35-year-old Milind Deshmukh, infecting COVID-19 infection has been a devastating, life-changing experience.
A mechanical engineer in Thane district of Mumbai caught a fungal infection called mucomycosis while battling viral disease.
Within a month, the rapidly spreading fungus ate up a large portion of the facial tissue, including the right eye and palate.
“He has undergone three surgeries, he has lost sight of one eye forever and it will be difficult to speak or eat because of the removal of his palate,” Brother Deshmukh’s older brother told Makarand to Al Jazeera. “It’s all very destructive.”
B Y L Nair Hospital
MUMBAI: The second coronavirus wave has claimed the lives of several children across city hospitals, particularly in March and April. The proportion of kids in need of hospitalisation and critical care, too, increased at tertiary care hospitals compared with the previous year.
At B Y L Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central, a referral centre for Covid-positive mothers and babies, there have been four deaths till April 30 out of 43 admissions. The hospital had seen four fatalities in all of 2020. Three of the four deaths were in infants while the fourth was an 11-year-old. Only one of them had an underlying health condition while a nine-month-old baby died after developing paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (PIMS). Covid claimed five paediatric lives at Parel’s Wadia Hospital between March and April this year as compared to three deaths in 2020. The hospital saw 76 admissions during the first peak in May-June 2020 as against 103 in March-April this year.