Its official, Haryana government admits 50 plus deaths due to black fungus

CHANDIGARH: Haryana government on Sunday finally agreed the 50 plus casualties of mucormycosis in the state so far.
Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar has officially confirmed the same during the media briefing.
According to information, as of now, the state has reported 756 cases of black fungus in various medical colleges as well as civil hospitals and private tertiary health care centres with majority of these coming from Rohtak, Gurugram and Hisar.
According to information, 58 patients recovered and 648 are under treatment at various places. While remaining 52 are reported to be fatalities of the diseases believed to be the post Covid or other sources of infections.
Technical committee headed by Dr Rajender Chauhan of PGIMS Rohtak on Sunday approved 975 injections of Amphotericin B for about 515 patients. CM Khattar has claimed that the state has a stock of around 1,250 injections and the requisition has been sent for more vials.
Meanwhile, an official spokesperson said that out of 577 patients whose clinical data has been analyzed 442 are males and 135 are females and about 508 such patients were also found to be suffering from diabetes.
On analyzing the mucormycosis patients it was found that about 86% had proven history of infection with Covid-19 virus. He elaborated that 498 patients were tested Covid-19 positive and 79 patients revealed no history of Covid infection.
Besides this, 462 patients had been given steroid therapy, 254 had been given oxygen therapy and 61 patients had other immuno-compromised conditions.
Sharing the details of districts with highest number of cases, the spokesperson said that Gurugram has 216 cases till date followed by the district of Hisar which has reported 179 cases and Rohtak which has reported 145 cases till date.