Patients Take To Social Media For Mucormycosis Drugs, Sood Helps

Jodhpur, 23 May 2021:

Amid growing shortage of Amphotericin B meant for treatment of black fungus, patients and their relatives have again taken to social media to appeal to people for the life-saving drug.

Kamal Kishore Singhal, who is admitted to AIIMS-Jodhpur for treatment of the deadly fungus, sought help from Sonu Sood for 10 vials of Amphotericin B and social media turned out to be the life saver. Associates of the philanthropic actor from Jodhpur, Hitesh Jain and Rajveer, were asked by Sood to collect the consignment of vials from Delhi airport.

“We left by road at 8.30 pm on Friday for Delhi, collected the vials from the airport and returned by 10am on Saturday,” said Hitesh, who handed over the packet of 10 vials to Singhal’s family at AIIMS an hour later. Jain said 12 more vials had been sent by Sood for Kamljeet Kaur in Sri Ganganagar, which also was collected by him and handed over to the patient 3 days ago. Shortage of Amphotericin B vial has become a cause of concern for patients in AIIMS, where about 65 patients of black fungus are under treatment and about 50 have undergone surgery.

HoD (ENT) at AIIMS Amit Goyal said there was acute shortage of the vials and they are trying their best to arrange it from every possible source. But in most of the cases, AIIMS has been prescribing the vial to patients asking them to arrange from outside but at the same time claiming that it was being made available as per need.

On the other hand, superintendent of MDM Hospital MK Aseri said they have no shortage of Amphotericin B vials in the hospital.The Times Of India