Rajasthan
Death rate of mucormycosis patients at SMS Hospital is 3% against 4.3% in Rajasthan | Jaipur News
JAIPUR: Mortality rate of mucormycosis patients at Sawai Man Singh Hospital is just above 3% as out of 412 cases reported at the facility, only 12 lost their lives.
Doctors at SMS Hospital worked round-the-clock and conducted surgeries on 403 patients and discharged 43 people so far.
Among the 412 patients brought to the hospital,167 presented with orbital symptoms, five could not see with both the eyes and 80 patients could not see with an eye. Hospital claimed that they had saved vision of 80 patients by conducting endoscopic debridement surgeries. Only 14 orbital exenteration surgeries were done and eyes of the rest of the patients were saved.
“We have found that around 95% black fungus cases were not vaccinated for Covid. Hence, we must encourage mass vaccination. Black fungus mortality is SMS is just above 3%, which is much lower than the national average. All this has been possible because of integrated approach of mucormycosis board comprising specialists of 14 different departments who would jointly see each and every patient at SMS Hospital,” said Dr Sudhir Bhandari, principal and controller, SMS Medical College.
SMS Hospital conducted surgeries in three operation theatres running 16 to 20 hours daily and made optimum use of Amphotericin B drug, an anti-fungus medicine.
Majority of the mucormycosis cases were males in the age group of 40 to 60 years without vaccination.
“A substantial number of cases were not admitted to any hospital nor did not require any specific treatment for their Covid infection. It is further substantiated with the data that around 50% didn’t have oxygen support, though more than 90% had hyperglycaemia,” said Dr Bhandari.
SMS Medical College claimed that despite the state reporting the third highest number of cases of mucormycosis in the country, the mortality rate remained lowest. With128 deaths out of 2,976 cases of mucormycosis, the state reported 4.3% mortality rate. Punjab reported highest mortality rate at 17.6%, Bihar 13.7% and Haryana reported 9.5% mortality rate.
Doctors at SMS Hospital worked round-the-clock and conducted surgeries on 403 patients and discharged 43 people so far.
Among the 412 patients brought to the hospital,167 presented with orbital symptoms, five could not see with both the eyes and 80 patients could not see with an eye. Hospital claimed that they had saved vision of 80 patients by conducting endoscopic debridement surgeries. Only 14 orbital exenteration surgeries were done and eyes of the rest of the patients were saved.
“We have found that around 95% black fungus cases were not vaccinated for Covid. Hence, we must encourage mass vaccination. Black fungus mortality is SMS is just above 3%, which is much lower than the national average. All this has been possible because of integrated approach of mucormycosis board comprising specialists of 14 different departments who would jointly see each and every patient at SMS Hospital,” said Dr Sudhir Bhandari, principal and controller, SMS Medical College.
SMS Hospital conducted surgeries in three operation theatres running 16 to 20 hours daily and made optimum use of Amphotericin B drug, an anti-fungus medicine.
Majority of the mucormycosis cases were males in the age group of 40 to 60 years without vaccination.
“A substantial number of cases were not admitted to any hospital nor did not require any specific treatment for their Covid infection. It is further substantiated with the data that around 50% didn’t have oxygen support, though more than 90% had hyperglycaemia,” said Dr Bhandari.
SMS Medical College claimed that despite the state reporting the third highest number of cases of mucormycosis in the country, the mortality rate remained lowest. With128 deaths out of 2,976 cases of mucormycosis, the state reported 4.3% mortality rate. Punjab reported highest mortality rate at 17.6%, Bihar 13.7% and Haryana reported 9.5% mortality rate.
