With cases of Mucormycosis or black fungus infection on rise in the State amid COVID-19 pandemic, Haryana Congress on Friday demanded constitution of a State level committee to monitor the situation in all districts of the State and provide free treatment to the affected patients.

The State has reportedly witnessed over 40 cases of black fungus infection in the month of May.

A study is also being conducted on the black fungus infection and its association with Covid and other factors such as the administration of steroids and age-group of the affected patients at Rohtak PGIMS.

Haryana Congress chief Kumari Selja said that a state level committee of doctors should be constituted to monitor the conditions of all the districts of the state and identify patients from black fungus disease and provide them treatment as soon as possible.

The State Government should bear the entire cost of treatment and medicines for the patients suffering from black fungus, she demanded.

Like other states of the country, cases of black fungus have also been reported in Haryana amid the Corona epidemic. Patients suffering from this disease are not getting treatment in the state and black marketing of medicines used in the treatment of this disease has started, she said.

Selja demanded from the Haryana Government that people should be made aware of this disease.

The senior Congress leader said that more than 40 cases of black fungal disease have been reported in Haryana in the last few days. Cases have been reported in Faridabad, Gurugram, Karnal, Fatehabad and other districts.

It is even more serious that the Health Department of the state does not have any district wise data on how many black fungus patients have so far been found in Haryana.People are dying due to this disease, Selja said.

Since cases of black fungus disease have been reported in the last one week, black marketing of medicines used in its treatment has also started. An injection for the treatment of this disease available for around Rs 2250 is being sold for Rs 6,000, she claimed.

A day before, the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar while commenting on black fungus infection had said that the Health Department is analyzing such cases. As per the initial observations in the country, Mucormycosis or black fungus infection cases have been rising among COVID patients with comorbidities like diabetes who were treated with steroids.