Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar addresses media personnel during the launch of plasma donation facility at Seven Hills Hospital, in Andheri.
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Dr Maharudra Kumbhar, officer on special duty, demonstrates the plasma separator machine at the newly launched plasma donation facility inside Seven Hills Hospital, at Andheri in M...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal visits the Plasma Bank at ILBS Hospital in New Delhi.
Satyendra Jain’s statement comes a day after a top ICMR official indicated that the Centre was considering removing plasma therapy from the clinical management protocol.
After donating his Plasma, Shri Pradhan urged people to donate their plasma for the well-being for the people infected with Covid-19 and save precious lives.
Plasma therapy involves taking antibodies from the blood of a person who has recovered from COVID-19 and transfusing those antibodies into an active coronavirus patient to help kickstart the immune system to fight the infection.
How did Dharavi flatten the curve? Aggressive testing, isolating, and quarantining helped in containing coronavirus spread in Asia's largest slum, explains IAS officer Dr Sanjay Mukherjee.
Plasma therapy involves taking antibodies from the blood of a person who has recovered from COVID-19 and transfusing those into a coronavirus infected patient to help kick-start the immune system to fight the infection.
The Delhi CM said the plasma therapy is in a trial stage and has shown good results initially and therefore the government will persist with them for now.
Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said currently there are no approved therapies for COVID-19 and there is not enough evidence to claim that plasma therapy can be used for treatment of the disease.
Experts say it’s too early to dub plasma therapy as a ‘silver bullet’ as it’s yet to be put through the litmus test of controlled trials to prove its efficacy