Expressing hope over the reduced number of the daily death toll in the national capital, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said plasma therapy will be helpful until Corona vaccine is developed. Inaugurating the first plasma bank, the CM deliberated on the modalities of donating or receiving plasma.
The bank is being set up at the Delhi government-run Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) and doctors or hospitals will have to approach it if plasma is required for treatment of a COVID-19 patient. In this process, the antibodies from the recovered person’s body get transferred to the patient. The move comes as convalescent plasma therapy has shown “encouraging” results in city hospitals. Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain was reportedly administered with plasma therapy.
