Mangaluru: Taking a note of the secondary and opportunistic fungal infections which are getting amplified due to the present surge in Covid cases and mucormycosis, or ‘black fungus’, becoming a cause of concern, the district administration has declared it as a notifiable disease and said that the treatment will be given in district Wenlock hospital.
The press note urged infection prevention and control practices to be enhanced using a bundle approach to prevent device-associated infections such as ventilator-associated pneumonia or catheter-associated bloodstream, urinary infections, etc.
It also stressed the infection prevention and control practices in hospitals. It asked hospitals to give special attention while managing immunocompromised patients such as Covid-19 patients on steroid treatment, with co-morbidities (such as diabetes where good glycemic control needs to be established. The public was requested to cooperate with the district administration to control the spread of black fungus disease.
