Odisha Begins Plasma Therapy for Treatment of COVID-19 Patients
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has started the plasma therapy for the treatment of COVID- 19 patients at the Ashwini Hospital in Cuttack. The procedure was conducted on a 48-year-old patient at the hospital for the first time in the State, informed technical advisor to the Odisha Health Department Dr. Jayant Panda. The patient has been [...]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has started the plasma therapy for the treatment of COVID- 19 patients at the Ashwini Hospital in Cuttack.
The procedure was conducted on a 48-year-old patient at the hospital for the first time in the State, informed technical advisor to the Odisha Health Department Dr. Jayant Panda.
The patient has been transfused B-positive plasma, Dr. Panda said.
The convalescent plasma transfusion will also be conducted in the SUM Hospital and the Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences in Bhubaneswar.
Earlier on Wednesday, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the Odisha’s first Covid Plasma Bank at SCB Medical College, Cuttack and appealed to all eligible Covid survivors to come forward to donate their plasma, which will go a long way in helping the treatment of serious patients.
He also said the plasma therapy would be made available free of cost to the people of the State.
In the plasma therapy, antibodies from blood of patients, who have recovered from coronavirus disease, are used to treat infected people. It is aimed at assessing the efficacy of convalescent plasma to limit complications of COVID-19 patients.
Odisha has become the third State besides Delhi and Maharastra to start this procedure.
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