Two physicians first to donate plasma for COVID-19 treatment
Two physicians who had recovered from coronavirus donated their plasma in Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s blood transfusion department on Saturday.
DMCH has begun collecting plasma for experimental clinical trial of Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) to treat critically ill coronavirus patients.
Professor MA Khan, a hematologist at DMCH and head of the technical committee formed by the government regarding plasma transfusion, urged the patients had recovered from coronavirus to donate their plasma for critically ill patients.
A total of 45 critically ill coronavirus patients would be given plasma in the first phase, he added.
“Two physicians Dildar Hossain and Rawnak Jamil have responded to our call. We have collected their plasma. A total of three people came to donate today, but we couldn’t collect plasma of another person,” MA Khan told Prothom Alo.
DMCH starts collecting plasma from COVID-19 survivors
