Themedical education departmentled by Congresss Amit Deshmukh has approved Rs 121 crore to procure equipment to treat Covid, reports Prafulla Marpakwar. Of it, Rs 15 crore will be used exclusively for facilities to treat mucormycosis, a deadly fungal infection that many got afterCovidtreatment.

The equipment will be distributed among the 19 government-run medical colleges across the state according to requirement, said the official order. This is the highest-ever sanction for procurement of equipment and machinery exclusively for the treatment of Covid-19 and mucormycosis

Among the equipment to be procured are paediatric and neonatal ventilators, suction machines, syringe infusion pumps, ECG machines, defibrillators,motorised PICU bedsand separate equipment for mucormycosis.