A sharp rise in black fungus cases during India’s catastrophic second Covid-19 wave has exposed the consequences of overmedication as stretched doctors flout prescription guidelines and panicked patients self-medicate.
The overprescription of steroids, in particular, to treat Covid-19 patients has been blamed for an explosion of fatal black fungus infections and a shortage of the drug to treat it.
Doctors have reported a surge of patients suffering from black fungus or mucormycosis, an infection with a mortality rate of at least 50 per cent that starts in the nose and quickly spreads to the eyes and brain.
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