KGMU sends plasma for BHU patient

KGMU sends plasma for BHU patient

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Lucknow:  14.07.2020

After using plasma therapy to treat critical Covid-19 patients, King George’s Medical University made its first outstation plasma delivery by transporting a unit for a patient undergoing treatment at Sir Sunderlal hospital in BHU, Varanasi.

“This was the first time that we sent plasma to another city. It was done on Sunday evening. All medication and treatment options had been tried by doctors treating the patient at BHU’s hospital and plasma therapy was the last remedy for them. The patient is in intubated state,” said head of transfusion medicine department, Prof Tulika Chandra.

Since April, KGMU carried out transfusion of plasma donated by cured patients in seven patients under ICMR’s clinical trials.

While details of results of plasma therapy in these patients cannot be divulged due to ICMR’s confidentiality clause, an eighth patient transfused with plasma at KGMU is said to be showing positive results.

Five GRP men donate plasma

Five GRP personnel who recovered from Covid-19 donated their plasma to KGMU. With two donations on Monday, the total has risen to 19 so far. The donors included Ajay Pratap Singh, Aftab Ahmad, Yogendra Pratap Singh, Awadhesh Maurya and Rajesh Kumar, all from GRP.