CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Friday told the high court that the state had ordered 30,000 vials of the drug used to treat black fungus.
“We will be placing periodic orders,” said Punjab advocate-general Atul Nanda, when a Bench of Justice Rajan Gupta and Justice Karamjit Singh questioned Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh on the preventive measures undertaken to beat mucormycosis in Covid-19 patients.
UT senior standing counsel Pankaj Jain told the Bench that 5,000 vials have been ordered to beat the disease.
The Bench urged Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh to examine, apart from medicine, the adoption of preventive measures that could be introduced to arrest black fungus.
UT administration also told Bench that it has been declared mucormycosis an epidemic in Chandigarh.
To address the spread of Covid in rural areas, the Punjab government said it had set up 2,400 community health centres for 12, 700 villages in addition to the primary health centres. Each community health centres would cater to a population of 5000.