Have ordered 30,000 vials of drug used to treat black fungus: Punjab tells HC

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 21

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The Punjab government on Friday told the high court that the state had ordered 30,000 vials of the drug used to treat black fungus.

“We will be placing periodic orders,” said Punjab advocate-general Atul Nanda after a Bench of Justice Rajan Gupta and Justice Karamjit Singh questioned Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh on the preventive measures undertaken to beat mucormycosis in Covid-19 patients.

UT senior standing counsel Pankaj Jain told the Bench that 5,000 vials have been ordered to beat the disease.

The Bench urged Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh to examine, apart from medical interventions, the adoption of preventive measures that could be introduced to arrest black fungus.

UT administration also told the Bench that it had declared mucormycosis an epidemic in Chandigarh.

The Punjab government said it had set up 2,400 community health centres for 12, 700 villages, in addition to the primary health centres, in order to address the spread of Covid in rural areas. Each community health centres would cater to a population of 5,000.