Srinagar: The Jammu & Kashmir administration has declared black fungus or mucormycosis as an epidemic illness underneath the Epidemic Diseases Act- 1897 and barred officers from making public statements on sufferers, establishments, or personnel coping with the epidemic, with out prior approval.
UT’s Health and Medical Education issued a notification to declare black fungus as epidemic illness and likewise issued detailed protocols to be adopted.
Jammu and Kashmir reported its first loss of life as a consequence of black fungus on Friday after a 40-year-old Covid-19 recovered affected person died of mucormycosis at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Jammu.
According to officers of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Government Dental College Srinagar, GDC Srinagar, one case of mucormycosis was efficiently operated within the establishment in Nov 2020 and one other robust suspect case is admitted there.
