4 Covid patients recover after plasma therapy

May 07, 2020 16:14

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Amid the ongoing debate in the medical fraternity about the efficacy of the plasma therapy on COVID-19 patients, a private hospital in Indore has claimed that four such persons recovered from the infection after undergoing this therapy. A district health official confirmed that plasma therapy was used on some coronavirus positive persons at the privately-run Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences and said that as per the doctors at that hospital it helped these patients in their recovery.

Talking to PTI on Thursday, head of the Chest Disease Department at SAIMS, Dr Ravi Dosi, said that one of these four patients is a 26-year-old woman.

"According to the protocol set by the Indian Council of Medical Research for the plasma therapy, we had started clinical trial on the woman and three male patients aged 23, 40 and 55 years from April 26. Now all four patients are free of COVID-19 infection," he said. Consent was obtained from all four patients prior to the clinical trial of plasma therapy, he added.

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