India’s First Plasma Therapy Success, COVID Patient Recovers In Delhi
Mumbai: The 49-year old COVID-19 patient who had undergone the country’s first plasma therapy was discharged on Sunday on medical prognosis.
Diagnosed with moderate respiratory illness, the patient was admitted to Max Healthcare, Saket on 4th April. Following his deteriorating health, he was put into a ventilator on 8th April and survived on supplemental oxygen. The patient was found to develop pneumonia Type-I. Dreadful to his stagnating health, meanwhile his family came forward to arrange a donor for extracting plasma.
Donner recovered from the infection three weeks prior to his donation (confirming two consecutive negative reports) and again Covid-19 negative at the time of donation, along with other standard tests to control infections such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV.
According to doctors, a single donor can donate 400ml of plasma which can save two lives, as 200ml is sufficient to treat one patient.
The patient showed escalating improvements in his health by 18th April. “We can say that Plasma Therapy could have worked as a catalyst in speeding up the recovery”, stated Dr. Sandeep Budhiraja, Medical Director of Max Healthcare.
The patient was put off the ventilator on the same day he started progressing and tested negative twice within 24- hours of constant testing. He is discharged on promising prognosis with 2 weeks of home quarantine.
Delhi is speculated to be the third-most coronavirus hotspot in the country with 2,918 cases, 877 recoveries, and 54 deaths.
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