Kamla Verma, 1st woman to head BJP in Hry & 3-time minister, dies of mucor

Yamunanagar: Kamla Verma — a veteran BJP leader who was also the first woman president of the party’s Haryana unit and a three-time Haryana cabinet minister — passed away due to Covid-associated mucormycosis at a private hospital in Yamunanagar district on Tuesday. She was 93.
Verma was undergoing treatment after her health deteriorated due to mucormycosis (black fungus) infection in the lungs post recovery from Covid-19.
Offering condolences, Haryana chief minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar tweeted on Tuesday evening: “An era has come to an end with the death of Kamla Verma, the first woman president of Haryana state BJP and three-time cabinet minister. The resolution power that was contained in your (Kamla's) personality for good governance with organisational capacity, those virtues will always inspire us for public welfare.”
As per her son Rajan Verma, Kamla tested positive on May 5 and she was admitted to a multi-speciality hospital in Rajpura, Punjab, but could not get the satisfactory treatment there.
She was then shifted to a private hospital in Jagadhri town of Yamunanagar district on May 20. During her treatment, it was confirmed on May 31 that she had black fungus infection in the lungs.
The family had to struggle for amphotericin-B injection. Haryana CM and home and health minister intervened in the matter and the medicine was made available to district health officials for the treatment. The veteran leader breathed her last about 7.30pm on Tuesday, according to Dr Ish Kalra, who is from the private hospital where Verma was being tread. “She had been given 30 amphotericin-B injections since May 31, but her health suddenly deteriorated in the evening today,” said the doctor.
Kamla Verma became cabinet minister in Haryana in the years including 1977, 1987 and 1996 and first time, she was elected MLA from Yamunanagar in 1977.