Lal Priyanka Mohan, Arif Aabiya, Mohan Anmol, Rackimuthu Sudhan, Hasan Mohammad Mehedi, Islam Zarmina, Uday Utkarsha, Wara Um-Ul-, Shaikh Muhammad Taha Arshad, Essar Mohammad Yasir
Ziauddin Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Karachi Medical & Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan.
Clin Epidemiol Glob Health. 2022 Jan-Feb;13:100960. doi: 10.1016/j.cegh.2021.100960. Epub 2022 Jan 4.
The ongoing pandemic that initiated in Wuhan, China, has been an international public health emergency since January 2020. India has been battling a brutal COVID-19's second wave since April 2021. The healthcare system was struggling with a substantial increase in COVID-19 cases when the lack of necessary resources further aroused a major setback. Opportunistic fungal infections, specifically mucormycosis and candidiasis have become a pressing matter of concern. Recent cases of aspergillosis have also heightened public alarm. Hence, call for an immediate response to this public health crisis is the need of the hour by establishing countrywide surveillance, diagnostic, and management system, as well as public awareness to alleviate the burden of COVID-19 and fungal infections in India.
自2020年1月起，始于中国武汉的这场持续的疫情已成为国际公共卫生紧急事件。自2021年4月以来，印度一直在抗击残酷的新冠疫情第二波高峰。当医疗系统因新冠病例大幅增加而不堪重负时，必要资源的匮乏更是雪上加霜。机会性真菌感染，尤其是毛霉菌病和念珠菌病，已成为令人紧迫担忧的问题。近期的曲霉病病例也加剧了公众的恐慌。因此，当务之急是通过建立全国范围的监测、诊断和管理系统以及提高公众意识，来立即应对这一公共卫生危机，以减轻印度新冠疫情和真菌感染的负担。
