'Plasma therapy works in early stages of Covid'
August 07, 2020 13:55
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain told mediapersons on Friday that when AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria said that plasma therapy on COVID-19 patients did not show much clinical benefit in reducing fatality risk caused due to the virus, he did not mean plasma therapy was ineffective.
"He [Dr Guleria] did not say that plasma therapy was not effective. He said that it is not effective after an advanced stage of the infection. If given on time, before the patient needs a ventilator, then it is effective," Jain said.
Satyendar Jain, who recovered from Covid-19, underwent Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) last week a procedure that the Indian Council of Medical Research still categorises as experimental.
Any hospital or doctor using it on a patient can do so expressly for the purpose of a trial and with the approval of the hospital ethics committee.
A total of 1,299 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in New Delhi on Friday, taking the total number of cases to 1,41,531, including 10,348 active cases, he said.
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