Sonia Gandhi on Saturday requested PM Modi to make sure the assured supply of important medicines for the therapy of mucormycosis.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make sure the assured supply of important medicines for the therapy of mucormycosis (black fungus) and cost-free care to these affected.
In a letter to the prime minister, she additionally identified that the sickness just isn’t lined below Ayushman Bharat and most different medical health insurance plans and sought instant motion on the difficulty.
Gandhi mentioned the federal government had requested states to declare mucormycosis an epidemic below the Epidemic Diseases Act. This would imply that there have to be ample manufacturing and warranted supply of important medicines to deal with it, and cost-free affected person care for these in want of therapy, she added.
“I understand that Liposomal Amphotericin-B is absolutely essential for the treatment of Mucormycosis. However, there are reports of its acute scarcity in the market,” the Congress chief wrote within the letter.
“Further, the illness is not covered in Ayushman Bharat and most other health insurance products. I would request you to kindly take immediate action on this matter to bring relief to the large number of patients being affected by Mucormycosis,” she informed the prime minister.
The Congress chief’s request comes at a time the nation is seeing a big quantity of circumstances of black fungus and even some deaths.
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