Health experts in Sri Lanka have asked the government to stock medicines and antibiotics required for treating patients of black fungus,  a disease menacingly rising in neighbouring India, reported Daily Mirror.

So far Sri Lanka has not detected any case of black fungus. However, given its prevalence in India, especially among the people recovering from Covid, experts advised storing antibiotics for the disease. 

“Our country needs to prepare by storing antibiotics in case of the dangerous black fungus infection spreads here,” warned the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) in Sri Lanka. 

 "The COVID patients and others with different diseases had got infected with the black fungus, will expire within 24-hours as their immunization system is not strengthened to fight against,” Dr. Prasad Colombage, a member of the GMOA general committee, was quoted as saying by Daily Mirror. 

He further added, "There are antibiotics such as 'Amphotericin B' to use against that fungus infection, but our country does not have a sufficient volume of those medicines. Therefore, we should import such antibiotics and store them for our future use.”

Several Indian states have already declared black fungus an epidemic and have formed special wards to treat such patients. Also, the Indian government has asked pharmaceutical companies to ramp up the production of medicines required for the disease.