124 died in Marathwada due to mucormycosis: Maharashtra govt. tells Aurangabad Bench
The Hindu
Aurangabad Bench calls for detailed chart on patients under treatment, recovered and dead due to the ‘black fungus’
The Maharashtra government informed the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday that 124 people have died in the Marathwada region due to mucormycosis, commonly known as black fungus. Special Public Prosecutor D.R. Kale told the Division Bench of Justices Ravindra Ghuge and B.D. Debadwar that there were 1,178 cases of black fungus in the Marathwada region, of which 669 patients were treated, 385 recovered, and 124 died. The Bench has been continuously hearing a clutch of suo motu public interest litigations on the shortage of medicines, oxygen, ventilators, beds, etc., in the ongoing pandemic.
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