Mucormycosis patients on rise

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Aurangabad, May

26:

The number of

Mucormycosis patients in the district is on the rise. Hence, the worries of the

district administration for the treatment of these patients have increased.

District collector Sunil Chavan directed the concerned officers to make

arrangement for the availability of the injections for these patients and to update

information about the available stock of the injections on the government

website.

He was directing

the officers during a review meeting on Mucormycosis at the district

collectorate on Wednesday. Additional district collector Dr Anant Gavhane, AMC

medical officer Dr Neeta Padalkar, district health officer Dr Ulhas Gandal,

drug inspector Rajgopal Bajaj and others were present.

Chavan said that

the information about the patients should be updated on the www.covid19.nhp.gov.in website

regularly. On the basis of this information, the government will provide

required injections and hence it is important to upgrade it timely. The

required human resources will be made available to the municipal Corporation,

he said.

Dr Padalkar and

Dr Gandal informed about the present situation about the Mucormycosis disease

in the district.