Patient’s death due to lung involvement, not due to mucormycosis, clarifies Thoothukudi Medical College

The family of the 59-year-old man, who died on Thursday night, however allege that he had mucormycosis but was not treated

The Thoothukudi Medical College Hospital (TKMCH) authorities have clarified that a patient whose death took place TKMCH on Thursday was due to serious lung involvement following SARS – CoV-2 infection, causing COVID-19 and not due to the mucormycosis as being alleged by a section of the media and family members. Steel fabrication unit worker Soundararajan, 59, of Narasimmapuram in Kovilpatti was admitted to a private hospital on May 10 with COVID-19 symptoms and the viral infection was confirmed on the next day. After doctors of the private hospital suspected that the patient had suffered infection in the eyes even as he was responding to the treatment for the viral infection, a CT scan was taken. Subsequently, Soundararajan was referred to Thoothukudi Medical College Hospital, where he died at 2.30 a.m. on Thursday.