New Delhi: Mucormycosis or black mushrooms appear as a bigger challenge than Covid-19 in the capital for now.
At present, there are far more active black mushroom cases than Covid’s positive case.
These most patients take steroids without a doctor’s prescription and use oxygen cylinders at home while they are infected with a virus.
Black mushrooms, which are usually found in the nasal cavity, oral and orbits, invaded the brains of several patients and turned into brain mushrooms, causing their death.
The timesviewmucosis case has been common for more than a month now.
This is a fatal potentially disease and the government must ensure that the medicine is easily accessible.
Because the drug is expensive, the authorities can also consider making it available at prices reduced to patients.
According to official documents accessed by Toi, Delhi has 952 active cases of black mushrooms compared to 833 active Covid-19 cases on July 6.
, While 402 patients were received at a private hospital, 302 were at the Delhi Government Hospital and the rest at the Central Government Hospital.
The Delhi government has marked the lack of injection needed to treat mucorikosis.
The total need for amphotericin-b is around 1.5 lakh when each patient generally requires five injections every day.
Usually, a patient needs 120-150 injections before full recovery, which takes more than a month.
The treatment is very expensive because every injection costs Rs 6,000-7,000.
A man whose 58-year-old father was treated with a black mushroom patch in the eyes to Lok Nayak Hospital, where special Musormycosis facilities had been made by the Delhi government, said he could not last more than two weeks.
“It developed into cerebral mushrooms, which resulted in his death.
He has recovered from Covid-19 about a month ago.
We thought we passed the crisis situation, but soon he developed a painful swelling in the eye after that we rushed to the hospital,” said man that.
Nearly 1,656 cases of mucormycosis have been reported in Delhi so far.
However, in recent weeks, cases have been stable.
Compared to 10-15 cases reported every day before, now only a few cases reported at Lok Nayak Hospital.
A doctor who handles cases such as government hospitals say most patients report black mushrooms 7-15 days after recovering from Covid-19.
“Among them, many who take oxygen at home from the cylinders obtained from the open market, many of them are filled with non-medical oxygen.
Some patients have a history of excessive steroid consumption, often without doctor’s advice,” added the doctor.
A source said that around 60 patients between 105 are now recognized at Lok Nayak Hospital have undergone surgery.
Recovery usually takes 30-45 days.
The patients were included in the age group of 30-60 and had black mushrooms on nasal and oral cavities and ocular infections.
More than 10 cases of cerebral mukorkosis have been reported at Lok Nayak Hospital.
“The symptoms include swelling around the eyes and face, black changes around the nose and eyes, nasal congestion, fever, headaches, coughing, chest pain and shortness of breath.
Patients who have recovered from Covid-19 must immediately meet the doctor if they develop Such symptoms, “said Dr.
Arun Gupta, a member of the Delhi Government Expert Committee.