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MUMBAI: A majority of people who died due to mucormycosis in the state had three things in common a history of diabetes, treatment with steroids and being on oxygen support, a micro-analysis of fatalities caused by the fungal infection has revealed.
Within the Covid-19 pandemic, Maharashtra was hit by a mucormycosis epidemic that has claimed 1,175 lives till now and affected nearly 10,000.
The medical education department has studied 242 mucormycosis deaths among patients who were treated in the 18 government-run medical colleges since April. They found that 79% of those who succumbed had diabetes, 75% were treated with steroids, 81% were on oxygen support and only 39% were on ventilators. The mean duration between their diagnosis of Covid-19 and onset of mucormycosis symptoms was eight days. “It is without doubt that these three factors became a lethal combination for those patients,” said one of the experts, who was a part of
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MUMBAI: Almost 95% of Covid-19 deaths at state-run medical colleges in the past two months have been among the unvaccinated.
In a strong demonstration of how effective vaccination is against Covid, the analysis also found that 87.5% of those hospitalised were not vaccinated.
A study by the medical education department showed that there have been 15,202 hospitalisations across government medical colleges between May 11 and July 12 of which as many as 13,298 (87.5%) had not received a single dose. It also means that vaccinated people accounted for merely 13% of hospitalisations. The impact of vaccines on mortality numbers appeared starker. Of 4,942 deaths among those admitted, 4,681 had not got a shot.