Delhi Hospital Reports First-Of-Its-Kind Covid White Fungus Case: Report

COVID-19 Delhi White Fungus: A 49-year-old woman who tested positive for COVID-19, was admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on May 13 with complaints of severe abdominal pain, vomiting and constipation.

Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) has come across a first-of-its-kind case of White Fungus which causes multiple perforations throughout the intestine in a COVID-19 patient, doctors said today. "White Fungus (Candida) causing multifocal perforations in the food pipe, small bowel and large bowel in COVID-19 infection has not been reported in literature to the best of our knowledge," Dr Anil Arora, Chairman of the Institute of Liver, Gastroenterology and Pancreaticobiliary Sciences at the hospital, told news agency Press Trust of India. A 49-year-old woman was admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on May 13 with complaints of severe abdominal pain, vomiting and constipation. She had undergone a mastectomy for breast cancer in December last year and had received chemotherapy till four weeks ago, he said. A CT scan of the abdomen revealed free air and moderate amount of free fluid in the abdominal cavity suggestive of an intestinal perforation, the hospital said in a statement.