#KGMU becomes 1st govt hospital to launch plasma therapy for COVID-19

Lucknow’s King George’s Medical University (KGMU)has become the1st government hospitalin the country to successfully launch theplasma therapy treatment for COVID-19.A 58-year-old doctor became the first coronavirus patient in Uttar Pradesh to receive plasma therapy as an experimental treatment.Convalescent Plasma Therapyis an experimental procedure for COVID-19 patients.

What is Convalescent Plasma Therapy?

The convalescent plasma therapy aims at using antibodies from the blood of a recovered Covid-19 patient to treat those critically affected by the virus. The therapy can also be used to immunise those at a high risk of contracting the virus: such as health workers, families of patients and other high-risk contacts.

This therapy’s concept is simple and is based on the premise that the blood of a patient who has recovered from Covid-19 contains antibodies with the specific ability to fight novel coronavirus. The theory is that the recovered patient’s antibodies, once ingested into somebody under treatment, will begin targetting and fighting the novel coronavirus in the second patient.

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