The recent view on discontinuing the use of plasma therapy comes a day after a meeting of ICMR-National Task Force for COVID-19 was held during which...
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has asked to avoid the indiscriminate use of Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) as it does not reduce mortality in...
Presently, Convalescent Plasma is used for the treatment of COVID-19 patients with the moderate disease who are not improving (oxygen requirement is progressively increasing) despite the...
According to Dr Randeep Guleria, Director of AIIMS, Delhi, during convalescent plasma therapy two things play a crucial role - type of plasma and the patient...
The India Council of Medical Research (ICMR) conducted a study to investigate the effectiveness of plasma therapy for the treatment of COVID-19 in 39 hospitals across...
With an aim to strengthen preparedness against COVID-19, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated state’s sixth plasma bank in Koraput District
Speaking at the launch of the first plasma bank in Telangana, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy said plasma bank is one of the initiatives taken by...
The Hyderabad City Security Council (HCSC) in association with the Hyderabad City Police launched a virtual campaign for plasma donation
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is conducting trials for convalescent plasma therapy on COVID-19 patients and the initial analyses shows that plasma therapy is...
After witnessing encouraging preliminary results of plasma therapy, Odisha government established the second plasma bank at Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar
According to Gian Chand Gupta, Speaker, Haryana Assembly, Plasma therapy is a more effective in treating severely infected patients compared to oxygen and steroid systems of...
According to officials, only 320 people have donated plasma in Delhi since the drive for donating plasma was initiated on July 2 while over 1 lakh...