02
Jun
The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the central government to prioritise younger people over older ones to give Amphotericin-B, a last-line drug used to treat mucormycosis that is in acute shortage across the country due to an unprecedented spike in cases. The direction comes a day after the court informed the Centre and Delhi government that they need to work out a distribution policy for the anti-fungal medicine and take the “cruel decision” of excluding a certain age group or class of people from receiving it owing to its current scarcity. Citing data it has obtained, the court said…