SOS Pleas For 'Amphotericin B' Surge As Black Fungus Cases In COVID Patients Rise: What We Know
As India battles the 2nd wave of COVID, the cases of black fungus, which is a rare infection, have gone up nationwide, as per a report in The Indian Express.
As India battles the 2nd wave of COVID, the cases of black fungus, which is a rare infection, have gone up nationwide, as per a report in The Indian Express.
It is happening a lot to COVID patients.
PTI
Twitter, which saw several SOS requests for Remdesivir and Tocilizumab, have added ¡®Amphotericin B¡¯, an antifungal medicine, to that list.
Take a look at what people are saying:
Urgently Need #AmphotericinB 6 vials/day for 4 weeks#posaconazole 300mg/4 weeks
¡ª Sylvester Mathews (@SylvesterMathw) May 18, 2021
Patient name : P Anand
Attender: P sujani/jayavardhan
At Yashoda, Somajiguda
Contact no: 9550900388@KTRTRS @HiHyderabad @sugandh @charan_tweetz @RaoKavitha @Shiva_THNews @DonitaJose @KTRoffice pic.twitter.com/LvTHuUFRpV
Name: Maireddi Ramesh
¡ª Harish Shankar .S (@harish2you) May 17, 2021
Age: 34
Sex: Male
Ward: Out Patient-EMERGENCY
Need Inj. L Amphotericin B 50 mg injection ( quantity 20 )
Hospital name: care hospital, Banjara hills, Road no-1.
Treating doctor: Dr. N. VISHNU .S. REDDY
contact Raju babu:9989560681
Name: Jagadeesh
¡ª Hanuma vihari (@Hanumavihari) May 16, 2021
Age: 45
Location: Shamshabad
Suffering from Black fugus
Need *Liposomal amphotericin B injection* for treatment
Contact No :-81069 70153@KTRTRS @KTRoffice pic.twitter.com/DntzRoS509
The demand is high and there is a shortage of the drug in states like Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka.
BBC
Doctors have noticed this spike of the infection and now this is one more problem added to the pandemic.
It is prominent among COVID survivors and makes their road to recovery that much harder.
One hopes the issue of the drug shortage is sorted soon.
