Afghanistan: Already struggling country hit be deadly 'Black Fungus'
A doctor examines a patient infected with Black Fungus or scientifically known as Mucormycosis, a deadly fungal infection, at a civil hospital in India on May 23, 2021. (File Photo)
‘Black fungus’ the deadly fungal infection has now reached the war-torn country of Afghanistan.
First detected in India, mucormycosiswas recently observed infecting COVID-19 patients in Afghanistan.
Wahid Majroh, the south Asian country’s Health Minister says that the country which is in the throes of the brutal third wave of the coronavirus is now also combatting this deadly fungal infection.
The country has already recorded one death from the fungus, which was also detected in two other patients, says Majroh.
With 92 deaths and 1272 cases in the last 24 hours, the number of cases in Afghanistan has risen significantly.
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The situation has been made direr as social distancing is not followed in the country and people rarely wear masks. The testing rate is also very low, approximately 4,000 tests a day is the current testing rate.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Afghanistan has 124,757 cases and 5,199 deaths, a figure believed to be wildly underreported.
Even though in the capital of Kabul, the health ministry has added hundreds of new beds for coronavirus patients, they remain at a hundred per cent capacity.
The hospitals are also running short on Oxygen, with patients having to sometimes wait for days to get their oxygen cylinders refilled at the limited number of production plants in Kabul.
Meanwhile due to vaccine shortage, barely 2.5 per cent of 36 million people Afghanistan citizens have been vaccinated. While it is one of the recipients under the UN-sponsored COVAX vaccination distribution scheme, the country continues to struggle to receive the promised vaccines.
(WIth inputs from agencies)