For the first time, doctors at the SCB Medical College Hospital here have conducted reconstructive plastic surgeries on a woman who had been affected from black fungus infection in July last year.
M Meenakumari’s upper jaw had been completely damaged by black fungus and she was unable to eat and speak properly. Her face was also disfigured.
Meenakumari suffered from black fungus infection a few days after she tested positive for Covid-19 in July 2021. She was admitted to the plastic surgery ward of the hospital for reconstructive surgeries on July 5 this year.
A team of doctors comprising plastic surgery department chief Bibhuti Bhushan Nayak and senior surgeons Prashant Kumar Bal, Shyam Sundar Behera, Bishnupada Nayak, Ishaan Agnihotri and Nrusingha Charan Das conducted the surgeries on July 18.
“The reconstructive surgeries took around seven hours. The patient is doing well. Her health issues relating to black fungus infection have been addressed successfully,” said the chief of plastic surgery department.