Updated On: 12 May, 2021 08:30 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI
The BMC's Central Purchase Authority is procuring antifungal drug Amphotericin B which is used to treat mucormycosis and hospitals have been authorised to purchase it locally.

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As many as 111 patients, all Covid-19 survivors, are undergoing treatment for the fungal infection "mucormycosis'' in Mumbai hospitals, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) informed on Wednesday.
Prabhakar Shinde, the BJP's group leader in the BMC said the information was provided to the civic body's standing committee upon his query.