After he was discharged from hospital after treatment for Covid-19, Anil Wankhede, developed a headache and a swollen right eye. His wife urged him to tell his brother, Mahendra, that he was not feeling well. For days Wankhede, 54, refused to countenance troubling his sibling, who had already looked after him throughout his illness and paid for his hospital bills. “He had already done so much for me.” Then Mahendra, 56, visited Anil at his home in Powai, Mumbai, by which time his eye had completely closed. Anil Wankhede, 54, had to have his right eye removedThe family took him to several doctors before one identified the cause of the inflammation as mucormycosis, also known as “black fungus

Source: The Times May 21, 2021 11:59 UTC