A team of doctors successfully removed a cricket-ball-sized mucormycosis, commonly known as black fungus, from a 60-year-old man’s brain at Patna’s Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS). The surgery went on for almost three hours. The patient is now stable, reported Livehindustan.

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The man, Arun Kumar recently recovered from COVID-19 and was constantly experiencing dizziness and faintings from the past few days. He was then referred to IGIMS where he was detected with mucormycosis or black fungus.

About Kumar’s condition, Dr Manish Mandal, the medical superintendent of IGIMS, told Livehindustan that the patient developed black fungus through the nose, which fortunately couldn’t spread to his eyes. His eyes remained completely unharmed during the operation, which is quite unlikely in most black fungus cases.

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Meanwhile, Bihar on Saturday reported less than 500 fresh COVID-19 cases and under 20 fatalities. The numbers are on a constant dip in the state, which recorded the 12th highest COVID deaths in the country.

The total number of active cases now stands under 6,000.