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| Black Fungus exposes Jammu healthcare further! | | After ‘higher mortality due to virus’, fungus shocks winter capital first | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 22: The first death of 40-year-old patient suffering from mucormycosis, who was admitted to the government medical college in Jammu here has left the alarm bells ringing further in the winter capital.
While Jammu was already witnessed “comparatively higher” mortality due to the Covid in the union territory, the reporting of first case of black fungus and death due to the same is a new worry, the health experts said.
The first black fungus mortality took place in Jammu and on May 21.
As per the principal GMC, Dr Shashi Sudan Sharma, “His tests confirmed him to be a case of mucormycosis, commonly called black fungus. His blood sugar had shot up to 900 when he was brought to the hospital emergency.”
As per the government, he was a Covid patient, who had recovered and even tested negative in RTPCR test.
Interestingly, the deadly fungus surfaced in Jammu and Kashmir only a day after the officials had said that no such case has been reported from anywhere.
“The point is that things were being taken forgranted by the official machinery in Jammu otherwise what explanation do babus have for the higher mortality in Jammu when the cases are less as compared to Kashmir,” said a senior medico on the condition of anonymity.
He said the administration had allegedly failed on the timely awareness on the black fungus in the winter capital.
“The government itself says that the patient had recovered from Covid but died of black fungus so somewhere proper awareness on what causes black fungus was missing,” the doctor said.
The doctor said there was lack of proper awareness on the what leads to black fungus and that the government should intensify the campaign through print and electronic media and that it should also take other remedial measures “including improvement of hospital hygiene.”
It’s pertinent to mention that hospitals in Jammu are already under scanner for allegedly substandard treatment to the Covid patients. In one such case, the administration has ordered a probe to verify if the hospitalized patients had died for the want of oxygen as alleged by the bereaved families. |
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