11-year-old boy under treatment for mucormycosis develops MIS-C, succumbs
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The 11-year-old boy from Challakere in Chitradurga district, who was under treatment for mucormycosis at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital developed Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C
The 11-year-old boy from Challakere in Chitradurga district, who was under treatment for mucormycosis at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital developed Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and succumbed to the post-COVID complications on Wednesday. The boy along with another 14-year-old girl from Ballari, the first cases of paediatric mucormycosis in Karnataka, was admitted to the hospital on May 27. He was first taken to a private hospital in Tumakuru for fever and exertion. He was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and past infection of COVID-19 (through an antibody test) there. He was then referred to Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH) in Bengaluru from where he was sent to Bowring Hospital. Doctors claimed this is the first case of a child having being infected with post-COVID-19 mucormycosis and MIS-C.More Related News