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Following the devastating second Covid-19 wave, India is now grappling with more than 40,000 cases of a rare fungal infection called mucormycosis, or black fungus. Doctors say that Covid, and the treatment being given for it, has led to this surge.

麻豆社 correspondent Yogita Limaye reports from the Yashwantrao Chavan Medical Hospital in the western city of Pune, one of the worst affected districts, where a doctor explains how the severity of the illness and how the disfiguring treatment, is affecting the patients there. He explains how treatments for the condition are in such short supply that some patients have had to resort to the black market to source the medication.

"When this hit us there was frank denial. The we realised we were in something big. We had to believe in a variety of things we had never seen before."

Photo: Man who lost one of his eyes to mucormycosis.