Pm Modi Says That Black Fungus Disease is Now An Epidemic
hello everyone good afternoon
' The big
big worry now emerging on the covid front
black fungus something that was black
by the prime minister today as he
spoke to his constituency banaras
it's our top focus at 1 pm on good
afternoon india.
Mucormycosis Cases on the Rise
According to Dr Randeep Guleria, AIIMS director ' rise in cases is significant a lot of states are
reporting increasing number of cases and
this will probably rise for
some more time till we see a downward
trend in the
number of covert case.
Rush For Anti Fungal Drug
In our survey many people say's " my brother he always already lost his
one vision " and " many patients are turning to black markets to source these
anti-fungal injections the strict
measures seem not to be working on the
ground where patients are struggling ".
Center Ramps up Production
we have reports coming in from across India cases of black fungus
are rising rising to an extent that the
center is very worried
asking all states now to declare black
fungus
that is much my as a notified disease
under the epidemics disease act. which
means declare it
an epidemic now .The government is also taking measures to increase the production of medicine that is used to treat black fungus it is called
amphro vectin b the drug has run out
of counters in many many big cities so
we are now being told that five more
pharma companies will begin production
of this anti-fungal drug.
indian companies have already placed an
order of six lakh walls of the drug
to address the demand and the shortage
we are currently seeing. prime minister narendra modi as i said
has also addressed this as a challenge.
today he was speaking to his
constituency banaras and he said that we
need to be
very careful when it comes to dealing
with black fungus it is now an epidemic.
Curse of The Black Fungus
Now let me go straight across to my
colleague ranjun sharma. who's tracking
the health ministry for us tracking the
black fungus story for us.
ranjun when we say that the center has
asked all states
to declare black fungus and epidemic.what does that mean we know it's a
matter of concern we know all doctors
are saying
it is the next big challenge we are
going to face but what happens when we
declare it an epidemic what difference
does it make.
And Shreya says that " the very fact that the health ministry now has written to all states to declare
nuclear microsis as a notified disease
that under the epidemic act that's
precisely for a reason that the
government of india
now can keep a better
a notifiable disease in the states the
the state governments will be complied
to report every suspected as well as the reported case of nuclear microsis to the
government of india
apart from that the states will then
have to follow a guidelines when it comes to the
treatment and
you know management of the disease
through the icmr and the health ministry guidelines."
and which is why the government of india
asking states to declare a muker my
courses are notifiable disease in every
state about four states have done that
already a but look at it now the government has
still not been able to corroborate data
in terms of how many
deaths.
Conclusion
that was that dr randeep galeria who's also a member of india's task force
explaining to us why we are seeing cases
of neucromycosis of black fungus in
india
when steroids are used all across the world 130 is special conversation coming up with
dr galeria do stay with us for that but
before that
take a look at what has happened we've
seen oxygen crisis in this country and
now as black fungus becomes a worry the drug that is used to treat it has
simply vanished we don't have enough of
it maharashtra has 1500
cases of black fungus. and now doctors
and hospitals are saying
where are the drugs gone where have all
these drugs gone.
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