Goa: Blood Plasma Treatment for COVID-19 Patients from Next Week

Goa CM said we are procuring a plasmapheresis machine for treatment of patients with plasma voluntarily extracted from persons cured of COVID-19. The treatment will begin from next week.

Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant said they will start treating coronavirus patients in a critical condition with blood plasma therapy from next week.

Sawant said that the Health Department was in the process of creating a plasma storage facility at the existing blood bank.

Blood Plasma Therapy for COVID-19 Care
Blood plasma therapy involves using blood plasma from recuperating COVID-19 patients to treat new cases. The government has to support plasma therapy for COVID-19 care alongside other supporting treatments.

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Goa CM: We are procuring a plasmapheresis machine for treatment of patients with plasma voluntarily extracted from persons cured of COVID-19. The treatment will begin from next week.

The Chief Minister said that a special pathologist as well as a doctor specialising in transfusion would also be appointed on a contract basis to facilitate the treatment.

"We have asked Health Secretary Nila Mohanan to start the process of hiring the personnel required," Sawant said.

Sawant said that the state government's blood bank was being upgraded to store plasma for future use. "We will freeze blood plasma units in a freezer at our blood bank so that it can be used at a later date," he said.

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In view of the rising Covid-19 cases in the state, the Health Department is in touch with its counterpart in Kerala, where treatment of Covid-19 patients in critical condition with blood plasma has yielded successful results.

Goa currently has 759 active coronavirus cases.

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