Delhi govt notified the disease late Thursday evening after a spurt in mucormycosis cases. In all, 773 cases reported in the past week ending Thursday.
A study found that the prevalence rate of diabetes in rural and urban India has increased about six times from 1972 to 2017. Targeting changes in lifestyle is the need of the hour.
Delhi High Court said Amphotericin B is required to save lives of those suffering from Mucormycosis or black fungus and allowed its duty free import till Centre decides on waiver.
Bihar is well stocked with Amphotericin B, being used to treat black fungus or mucormycosis. The drug is in high demand and many states are reeling under a severe shortage.
The state health department has also constituted an expert committee to deal with the black fungus cases and formulated an advisory for the common people.
Amid dearth of effective treatments, doctors are turning to drugs they have on hand — many are antibiotics that other countries wouldn’t use for Covid.
State Health Minister Rajesh Tope said there are 2,245 patients of black fungus in Maharashtra and 1,007 are already covered under Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Jan Arogya Yojana.
The govt further said that free medicines for the infection will be provided in selected hospitals and private hospitals will be restrained from raising 'astronomical bills.'
Dr Rajeev Jayadevan, a leading gastroenterologist in Kerala, cites an analysis of 210 patients to state there are factors beyond steroid use and diabetes in emerging cases of mucormycosis.
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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